UK police have begun to contact a number of Russian exiles to discuss their safety as they investigate the murder of businessman Nikolai Glushkov.
The 68-year-old’s body was discovered at his south-London home on 12 March. A post-mortem examination has found he died from “compression to the neck”.
The UK granted Mr Glushkov political asylum in 2010 after he fled Moscow.
The BBC has been told police and the security services have reassessed their view that other exiles are at low risk.
Police say there is no evidence at this stage linking Mr Glushkov’s death to the poisoning of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, in Salisbury on 4 March.
It comes as Russia said it would expel 23 British diplomats amid tensions with the UK over the incident.
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