Teenage girl tells of helping Skripals after Novichok poisoning

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>A teenage girl was the first person to help Novichok poisoning victims Sergei and Yulia Skripral&comma; it has emerged&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Abigail McCourt was with her family when she saw the 66-year-old ex-KGB spy and his daughter collapsed on a bench at The Maltings shopping centre in Salisbury&comma; England on the afternoon of March 5 last year&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The 16-year-old thought Mr Skripral had suffered a heart attack and alerted her mother Alison&comma; who is an Army colonel and chief nursing officer&comma; and they went to administer first aid&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;It was my brother’s birthday and we were out celebrating&comma; and we were coming home and I saw them on the bench&comma;”<&sol;em> Abigail&comma; who learnt first aid at school&comma; told Salisbury-based radio station Spire FM&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote class&equals;"twitter-tweet" data-width&equals;"550" data-dnt&equals;"true">&NewLine;<p lang&equals;"en" dir&equals;"ltr">RECOGNITION&colon; Abigal McCourt has spoken about her involvement in helping Sergei and Yulia Skripal after they were poisoned with novichok for the very first time<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;t&period;co&sol;AE2BB1V7SZ">https&colon;&sol;&sol;t&period;co&sol;AE2BB1V7SZ<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&mdash&semi; Spire FM &lpar;&commat;SpireFM&rpar; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;SpireFM&sol;status&sol;1086922283858444288&quest;ref&lowbar;src&equals;twsrc&percnt;5Etfw">January 20&comma; 2019<&sol;a><&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;platform&period;twitter&period;com&sol;widgets&period;js" charset&equals;"utf-8"><&sol;script><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;At this point people were still walking past and I don’t think anyone had really noticed them&period;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I told my mum because I thought he was having a heart attack&period; We went over and it developed from there&period;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We went home and the next day I was talking to some of my friends about it&comma; and at break someone Snapchatted me and said&comma; &OpenCurlyQuote;Is this the thing you were talking about&quest;’&comma; and I was &OpenCurlyQuote;OK&comma; wow’&period;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I was a bit shocked&comma; to be honest&comma; because I don’t think I was expecting near that to have happened&period; I needed to phone my mum and see if she was OK&period; It was a bit surreal&period;”<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Abigail&comma; who had to undergo hospital tests to see if she had been contaminated by the deadly nerve agent&comma; was speaking after winning a Spire FM Local Hero Award&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Abigail&comma; who was nominated by her mother&comma; said she put her first aid training to good use and believed she made a difference&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;It just all helped and I did make a massive difference&comma; I think&comma; because the woman wasn’t breathing at the time we found her&comma;”<&sol;em> said the teenager from Larkhill&comma; Wiltshire&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;If someone is in trouble you have got to do something&comma; and I don’t think you really question it at all&period;”<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Ms McCourt told the radio station she was &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;immensely proud” of her daughter&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I just think she has been incredibly brave at the time to rush in&period; She’s trained in first aid and is in the cadet force at school&comma; and she would never walk on by even if it was obvious it was dangerous&comma;”<&sol;em> she said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I know she’d do it all again if required to do so&comma; which makes me immensely proud to be her mother&period;”<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Investigators believe the Skripals first came into contact with the poison when it was sprayed on the door handle of the former spy’s home in Salisbury&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Skripal and his daughter survived the attack&comma; which Prime Minister Theresa May said had &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;almost certainly” been approved by the Russian state&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Dawn Sturgess&comma; 44&comma; fell ill in Amesbury months after the incident and died in hospital in July after coming into contact with a perfume bottle believed to have been used in the attack on the Skripals and then discarded&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Her partner&comma; Charlie Rowley&comma; 45&comma; was also exposed to the nerve agent but was treated and discharged&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Two Russian nationals have been accused of traveling to the UK to try to murder Mr Skripal with Novichok&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Evidence gathered by intelligence agencies led the UK Government to conclude that the men were officers with Russian military intelligence service the GRU&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The two suspects – known by their aliases Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov – were caught on CCTV in Salisbury the day before the attack&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ed2e456a0b3">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; function &lpar;&rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;if &lpar; 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