On this reading, it was designed to demonstrate the scope of the murderers and to send a hair-raising message to Litvinenko's friends in London, and perhaps also to his perfidious British hosts.

这种做法的弦外之音，意在展示谋杀者的用武之地，也给利特维年科在伦敦的友人传达了恐怖信息，可能还是给利氏背信弃义的英国东家一个下马威。