A RUSSIAN spy who lived in Boscombe has re-emerged in the wake of the Salisbury nerve agent attack, in Northumberland.

Disgruntled ex-KGB double agent, Victor Makarov - who had complained of not getting proper assistance from the British government when he lived in Dorset - said he still fears he could be the victim of a state assassination.

Mr Makarov told a news website: "'Salisbury was horrifying. When I heard I quickly realised these people are very dangerous because they did it quite openly, they didn't hide their tracks.

"It is much more sinister. Putin is showing he will stop at nothing. Things are developing very quickly, Russia is getting more and more aggressive. These people are capable of anything, you must not underestimate them."

Mr Makarov has said in the past that he had risked his life to pass secrets to MI6.

He came to the UK in 1992 and after a few years decided to move to the south coast.

“I picked Bournemouth, simply because while I was in Russia I had read the main British political parties often had their conferences there, so I thought it must be a nice place," he is reported as saying. "But MI5 put me in a bedsit in an area full of criminals, it was awful.”

He now lives in a small community which he believes is safer, and describes Northumberland as 'a beautiful place'.