‘Putin will kill me if I go back to Latvia’

A former KGB double agent who is wanted in Latvia for bank fraud and possessing a loaded pistol could face a ‘violent death’ if extradited, a court heard. Boriss Karpickovs, 61, claimed he was on a hit-list of eight targets Vladimir Putin wants dead after Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, were poisoned with Novichok in Salisbury in 2018. The ex-spy says he survived an assassination attempt but lost nearly five stone and all of his body hair. Karpickovs is…