A former Russian spy and his daughter targeted by Vladimir Putin in a chemical attack on the streets of Britain have told how they thought it was funny at first as their eyes began to twitch. Double agent Sergei Skripal, and his daughter Yulia, then 33, described their horrifying ordeal in statements issued to the official inquiry into the poisoning s. The spy, who passed intelligence to MI6, and his daughter Yulia, nearly lost their lives in the attack by Russian assassins in Salisbury on