For the first time, Prime Minister Theresa May said the suspects were both Russian military intelligence officers who had traveled from Moscow to London, using Russian passports with false names.
British authorities said the two suspects were both GRU officers who had entered under false identities to poison Skripal and his daughter with a military-grade nerve agent called Novichok.
The suspects were both described as men in their 40s.
Beyond the cost to misidentified suspects, the crowdsourced identification of criminal suspects is both a benefit and burden to investigators.
At play here, we suspect, are both tactics and a sense of history.
To say that this movie is historically irresponsible or politically suspect is both to state the obvious and to miss the point.
Despite the last three Forward prize winners being of Afro-Caribbean heritage, this idea that people of colour succeeding in poetry is not merely rare but suspect is both common and false.
It turns out that being a Unabomber suspect was both the start of his problems and the least of them.
The suspects are not British and are both 67, police said.
