Russian Ambassador to the UK Alexander Yakovenko wishes victims of the Salisbury nerve agent attack - former spy Sergei Skripal, his daughter Yulia and police detective sergeant Nick Bailey - a "speedy recovery". Detective Sergeant Nick Bailey, the police officer who was poisoned by the Novichok nerve agent while working on the investigation into the targeted attack on ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, has been discharged from hospital. The Wiltshire police officer was initially in a critical condition having come into contact with the chemical weapon while working on the investigation into the targeted attack on the former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia. "This has quite simply been the most traumatic event of our life and it feels like our world has been turned upside down in a really short space of time," Ms Bailey said in a statement read out by Chief Con Pritchard. He continued that he has been "overwhelmed" by the support he has received during what has been a "surreal" experience and paid tribute to the "phenomenal" care he had received while in hospital "from the man that cleans the floor to the doctors giving the treatment". “I have been so very overwhelmed by the support, cards and messages I have received – everyone has been so incredible.”

DS Bailey insisted “I am just a normal person with a normal life”, but added: “I recognise that ‘normal’ life for me will probably never be the same.”

His discharge came as a Court of Protection judge gave doctors permission to take blood from the Skripals and provide samples to chemical weapons experts.
Detective Sergeant Nick Bailey, wounded when he came to the aid of the poisoned Russian dissidents, is discharged from hospital.