The Mail asks...

Novichok in hotel room. Oh yeah? Ever heard of police planting drugs? Why stay in East London? Why not? Lots of gay clubs. Snow? There was lots of snow. Wrong direction to cathedral. Does everyone have to go one way and then no other? No photos or CCTV yet? Well there wouldn't be, would there? No buses to Stonehenge? Oh, who cares? Two parallel border entry points? To the second? Wow. And the rest.

Hey if they are a couple of queens (and they look like they are) trying to avoid public Russian homophobic attention (we gather Russia is not too gay friendly), this is just the kind of rather flaky cover story they would use.