ST LOUIS (LALATE) – The Alexander Litvinenko death report, a police investigation into the former Russian spy’s interaction with British intelligence, will remain redacted, officials told news today. Alexander Litvinenko was the 43 year old believed to have been poisoned with polonium-210 in 2006, laced into his tea.

But now officials tell news that the inquest won’t start until next year. Litvinenko was a former Russian spy who got British asylum years later. But in 2006, the Kremlin was accused of poisoning him. Litvinenko was said to have consumed polonium-210 put secretly into his tea during a gathering inside a London Hotel that year.

In a news statement today, Hugh Davies, counsel or the inquest, said “This redaction, of course, should not be taken as indicating one way or the other whether Mr. Litvinenko did indeed have any such contact.”

He also told news “Claims have been made to the effect that Mr. Litvinenko had contact with British intelligence service prior to his death. As part of its investigation, the Metropolitan Police Service made an inquiry into these claims.”

Davies in a news statement today added “Pending the outcome of the disclosure exercise currently under way, the product of these inquiries which are known to you sir, and counsel and solicitors to the inquest, has been redacted from the report at the request of Her Majesty’s Government.”

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