Poisoned soup may have killed Russian whistleblower

A Russian whistle blower could have been murdered with a poison vegetable which was switched for sorrel in the soup he ate for lunch, a court heard. Alexander Perepilichnyy, 44, collapsed and died while running near his £3 million St George’s Hill estate in Weybridge, Surrey, in November 2012. Traces of a suspect compound matching the atomic weight of rare and deadly vegetable poison were found in the father-of-two’s stomach lining. It emerged at a pre-inquest hearing at the Old…