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LONDON — A coroner has agreed to open a full inquest into the radiation poisoning of the former KGB officer Alexander V. Litvinenko, potentially bringing the case before a British legal forum for the first time.
The decision by the coroner, Andrew Reid, on Thursday came five years after Litvinenko died from ingesting a rare radioactive isotope, Polonium 210, thought by the police to have been slipped into a teapot at an upscale hotel in Grosvenor Square on Nov. 1, 2006, just weeks after Litvinenko had acquired British citizenship by naturalization.
Denver Post wire services
