The Kremlin has accused British authorities of doctoring evidence as it unsurprisingly contested Russian involvement in the Salisbury attempted assassination plot.

On the day two Russian spies became Britain’s most wanted men, in Moscow, foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said the names Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov meant nothing to her. 

They are the two men suspected of poisoning Sergei and Yulia Skripal with the same Novichok which killed Dawn Sturgess when she sprayed the lethal nerve agent on her wrists thinking it was perfume. 

Scotland Yard forensically combed through 11,000 hours of CCTV footage and on Wednesday released images of Petrov and Boshirov arriving at Gatwick,…