POLICE FORENSIC SCIENCE SERVICES LABORATORY, LAMBETH, LONDON. Scotland Yard Black Museum Lambeth 1986 The metal sphere at across shown on an eltro scanning microscope which contained the toxin Ricin which was used to murder the Bulgarian BBC Journalist Georgi Markov on 7th September 1978. The sphere was inserted into the tip of an umbrella which was stabbed inti his leg as he walked home across Waterloo Bridge in London. Georgi Markov was assassinated on a London street via a micro-engineered pellet containing ricin, fired into his leg from an umbrella wielded by someone associated with
POLICE FORENSIC SCIENCE SERVICES LABORATORY, LAMBETH, LONDON. Scotland Yard Black Museum Lambeth 1986 The metal sphere at across shown on an eltro scanning microscope which contained the toxin Ricin which was used to murder the Bulgarian BBC Journalist Georgi Markov on 7th September 1978. The sphere was inserted into the tip of an umbrella which was stabbed inti his leg as he walked home across Waterloo Bridge in London. Georgi Markov was assassinated on a London street via a micro-engineered pellet containing ricin, fired into his leg from an umbrella wielded by someone associated with the Bulgarian secret police. It has been speculated that they asked the KGB for help. Photographs taken on an organised press facility visit with permissions to the forensic department in Lambeth London. Exhibits shown were used by visiting police from the UK and overseas to evaluate the forensic work done by Scotland Yards Forensic investigations team on major criminal cases. The exhibits are now housed in Scotland Yard and not open to the public.
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Location: Lambeth, London, UK
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