Read this article of the Sun of 11 March, 6 days after the 'nerve agent' attack

By Andy Jehring, Tom Wells and James Mills
11th March 2018, 12:53 amUpdated: 11th March 2018, 1:01 pm

Poisoned former Russian double-agent spent much of his time alone, tending to his pets and playing old computer games

RUSSIAN double agent Sergei Skripal spent hours playing old computer war games in his “man cave” surrounded by his pet guinea pigs, friends revealed last night.

But the spook, still fighting for his life after being poisoned, was so useless with technology he did not even have a password for his PC.

And the lonely widower’s only other companion was a pedigree Persian cat which cost him thousands of pounds to bring to Britain.

The glimpse into the ex-spy’s life emerged a week after he and daughter Yulia were targeted in a suspected Kremlin-backed hit.

Investigators continued to examine the graves of Skripal’s wife Liudmila and son Alexandr in a cemetery yesterday. There are no plans to exhume their bodies.

Two ambulances were also taken away for testing and decontamination. Military personnel in decontamination suits and masks were seen covering one vehicle with a tarpaulin before they moved it.

Police are working on the theory that Skripal was poisoned with nerve agent at his home in Salisbury, Wilts. He was found with his daughter, 33, slumped in a shopping centre in the city.

Det Sgt Nick Bailey, 38 and also still in hospital after being contaminated, is thought to have visited the house after attending the scene where the pair collapsed.

Friends said they had not seen Skripal’s pets for days and had not been asked to care for them.

They fear the animals might have come into contact with the nerve agent used in the attack.

If traces are found, it would confirm the belief Skripal, 66, was poisoned at his home.

Pictures on Yulia’s Facebook page show her with the black Persian cat in Skripal’s back garden

One pal said: “He imported the cat a couple of years ago from Russia, he got it especially. It was really expensive. Everyone on Sergei’s street is really worried about it.

“If they used nerve agent in the house he was always petting his guinea pigs, so it will have got on them.” The friend said Skripal struggled with English but would become chatty when asked about his pets.

The pal added: “He had this huge hutch in the corner of his computer room at the front of his house where he kept the two guinea pigs.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/5777088/poisoned-russian-double-agent-spent-much-time-alone-tending-to-his-pets-playing-computer-games/

So the neighbours were worried about Skripal's pets, but the UK authorities did nothing to save them, but instead deliberately starved them to death or just took them away to get rid of unconvenient evidence.