Novichock ‘victim’ is drug dealer

A playboy who claimed he had been poisoned by Novichok six months after the deadly attack in Salisbury is facing jail for dealing in drugs worth £60,000. Alex King, 42, claimed he and his Russian-born partner, escort Anna Shapiro, had been exposed to the Kremlin nerve agent eating at Prezzo, an Italian restaurant in the city. Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, were poisoned in the city in March last year. King is now a wanted man after he was…