Charlie Rowley could not remember Dawn Sturgess after Novichok poisoning, the inquiry has heard.
On Wednesday, October 16, evidence from Mr Rowley was read out to the Dawn Sturgess Inquiry. It was confirmed that Mr Rowley will give evidence in November.
Mr Rowley and Ms Sturgess were poisoned with Novichok on June 30 in 2018. The pair had sprayed the substance believing it to be perfume that Mr Rowley had bought home as a 'gift'.
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The pair were found by emergency services which deemed it a 'HazMat incident'. They were taken to hospital and it was confirmed as Novichok three days later on July 3.
In a statement, read out by Andrew O’Connor KC, counsel to the inquiry, Mr Rowley wrote: "At the time I gave my accounts to the police, my memory of quite a lot of what happened before I was poisoned was very bad. The same is true now: I have very little memory of what happened before I was poisoned this [is] partly because of the Novichok itself.
"I noticed that affected the thought processes in my head. Since the poisoning, it has been a lot harder to think and to concentrate.
"I tend to overthink things. I feel anxious often. I have had a lot of peculiar dreams. My memory was so bad because of my daily use of large amounts of alcohol, methadone and/or other drugs I currently do not take any drugs.
"My first interview was on 13 July 2018, after I had been unconscious for a number of days. When I first came around, I had very little recollection, I could not even remember who Dawn was."
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