maintain a lead role in the investigation. The Russian Embassy in London has requested a meeting with the head of Scotland Yard over its investigation into the murder. It was reported after his death that Glushkov might have been poisoned by two Russian men five years earlier. A paramedic said that he treated Mr Glushkov in Bristol in 2013 after he had collapsed in his room. He had been sharing drinks with two men from Moscow the night before at the Grand Hotel in Bristol and believed he had been poisoned with champagne. The paramedics found him with multiple carpet burns on his body and an unusual heart rhythm which they could not recognise. On 9 April 2021, a coroner with the West London Coroner's Court ruled Glushkov was unlawfully killed, with evidence to suggest his death was made to look like a suicide, and injuries that "could be consistent with a neck-hold, applied from behind, and the assailant being behind the victim". References 1949 births 2018 deaths 2018 murders in the United Kingdom 21st-century Russian businesspeople 21st-century Russian criminals Deaths by strangulation 20th-century Russian businesspeople Aeroflot People from Maykop Russian expatriates in the United Kingdom Russian businesspeople in the United Kingdom