MOSCOW. March 12 (Interfax) - Russian parliamentarian Andrei Lugovoi, who has been accused by the UK authorities of involvement in the poisoning of ex-security service officer Alexander Litvinenko in London, has said that he will not take part in the Litvinenko death trial.
"I have come to the conclusion that the UK authorities will not give me any chance to prove that I am not guilty and I will be unable to get a fair trial in the United Kingdom," Lugovoi said at a press conference at the Interfax central office.
"I have run out of hope to see a fair trial in the UK. I no longer believe in the very possibility of an impartial investigation of this case in the UK. I have to announce that I am quitting the Coroners' inquest. I will not take part in it," he said.