Amesbury victims’ friend describes their symptoms A man describing himself as a friend of a couple in Amesbury who are in critical condition after being exposed to an "unknown substance" describes their symptoms. He says the man and woman - whom he names as Charlie Rowley and Dawn Sturgess - fell ill on Saturday after spending a day in Salisbury, the town where former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter were poisoned in March. AFP cannot at this time independently confirm the names of the victims. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES