As one criminologist put it, ‘Instant torture in a bottle.’ But the impact attacks have on victims is devastating. Possession is harder to monitor because the weapons can be in the form of domestic cleaning products. But two-thirds of acid attacks in this country are on men.Ĭriminologists tend to believe a rise in gang crime is behind the spike, as young men caught up in urban gangs swap guns and knives for corrosive substances, which can be bought online more easily, using the liquids if a business deal goes wrong, or when someone owes money.
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TV presenter Katie Piper was targeted in 2008 by a man taking orders from her jealous ex Daniel Lynch, who is serving a life sentence. Globally, the majority of acid-attack victims (around 80 per cent) are women the assaults often at the bidding of a vengeful man. I was in such profound shock, I couldn’t even speak.’
‘Somehow they got us into a car and we sped to the local hospital. Her screams were overheard by two tourists, Sam and his girlfriend Nadine.
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The injured girls fled in different directions – Kirstie fell and was helped to the seafront, while Katie (who was standing closer to the attackers and had taken the brunt of the acid) ran to a restaurant, where she managed to find her way to customer showers, and stood under the cold water as her skin began to blister and her clothes disintegrated. Imagine a thousand wasp stings all over your body. ‘In the split second it took me to look up and see two men, the liquid was already flying towards me,’ Katie recalls, describing the searing pain that instantly began to overwhelm her as the corrosive liquid splashed across the right side of her face and body. Katie and Kirstie had been splattered with battery acid in a seemingly random attack by two men on a motorbike, who slowed down next to them as they turned into a side street. Instead, she received the message no parent wants to hear – on the other end of the line, more than 4,000 miles away, a young man, who introduced himself as Sam, explained that her daughter had been violently attacked. Katie had called her mother Nicola to ask for money for further travelling before returning home, so when the phone rang again, Nicola thought her daughter had forgotten something. In the summer of 2013, Katie Gee and her friend Kirstie Trup spent the holidays volunteering in a primary school in Stone Town, Zanzibar.
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