{"id":157973,"date":"2018-07-20T17:23:51","date_gmt":"2018-07-20T17:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/novichok-victim-charlie-rowley-leaves-hospital\/"},"modified":"2018-07-20T17:23:51","modified_gmt":"2018-07-20T17:23:51","slug":"novichok-victim-charlie-rowley-leaves-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/novichok-victim-charlie-rowley-leaves-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"Novichok victim Charlie Rowley leaves hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>                                  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Charlie Rowley\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/11E4F\/production\/_102459237_56674211-6539-4a44-8255-1968941e2dd5.jpg\"\/>Image copyright                  AFP<figcaption>Image caption                                      Charlie Rowley collapsed in his home in Amesbury after being exposed to the nerve agent Novichok                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"caps\">Novichok victim Charlie Rowley has been discharged from hospital, three weeks after being exposed to the nerve agent.<\/p>\n<p>Salisbury District Hospital said he had been through an &quot;appalling experience most of us could never imagine&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Rowley, 45, and his partner Dawn Sturgess, 44, collapsed at his house in Amesbury, Wiltshire, on 30 June, where police found a bottle containing the nerve agent. <\/p>\n<p>Ms Sturgess later died on 8 July and a murder inquiry has been launched.<\/p>\n<p>Lorna Wilkinson, Salisbury District Hospital&#039;s director of nursing, said the day was &quot;tinged with sadness&quot; after the death of Ms Sturgess.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We continue to think both of Charlie and of Dawn&#039;s family, and support them as they go through the difficult process of coming to terms with her death,&quot; she said. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Police &#039;identify Novichok suspects&#039; <\/li>\n<li>Novichok victim&#039;s sister recalls &#039;goodbye&#039;<\/li>\n<li>Amesbury poisoning: What we know so far<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ms Wilkinson added that Mr Rowley had been decontaminated to ensure the nerve agent could no longer affect him &quot;or anyone who came into contact with them&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>There have only been five victims of Novichok poisoning to be treated at Salisbury District Hospital, she said.<\/p>\n<p>Wiltshire Police said it would &quot;continue to coordinate activity at a local level to ensure that Mr Rowley continues to receive the support he needs in his ongoing recovery&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>The poisoning is thought to be linked to the attack on Russian ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in March. <\/p>\n<p>Mr Rowley&#039;s brother Matthew said his brother picked up a perfume bottle containing the toxic substance.<\/p>\n<p>The Metropolitan Police, which is leading the investigation, refused to confirm the claim but the force had previously said the substance was found in a &quot;small bottle&quot;.<\/p>\n<figure>                                                                                                       Image copyright                  Metropolitan Police<figcaption>Image caption                                      Dawn Sturgess died on 8 July after being taken ill on 30 June                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A coroner&#039;s inquest has been opened and adjourned for mother-of-three Ms Sturgess. <\/p>\n<p>Her sister Stephanie told the hearing she was present when doctors informed her of the decision to switch off her sibling&#039;s life support.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I then said my goodbyes to Dawn before leaving hospital,&quot; she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright AFPImage caption Charlie Rowley collapsed in his home in Amesbury after being exposed to the nerve agent Novichok Novichok victim Charlie Rowley has been discharged from hospital, three<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":157974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}