After a young Nigerian woman, Naomi Oni's
face was left severely scarred by acid thrown on her in east London in
December, police have charged another Nigerian woman, Mary Konye, over the
incident.
Naomi Oni, 21, was partially blinded
and needed skin grafts after acid was thrown on her by a person wearing a veil
after the Victoria's Secret shop assistant got off a bus on Lodge Avenue in
Dagenham, east London in the early hours of December 30.
Mary Konye, a Nigerian also 21, from
Canning Town, east London, was last Friday charged with throwing or casting a
corrosive fluid with intent to burn, maim, disfigure, disable or do grievous
bodily harm at Oni.
Konye will appear in custody at
Redbridge Magistrates' Court today. Police had previously arrested a
28-year-old male but he was released without any further action.
Naomi suffered horrific burns to her
face, leg, arm and head and was left partially blind after a person dressed in
a niqab threw acid over her as she returned to her home in Dagenham, following
a shift at the Victoria's Secret store in the Westfield Shopping Centre in
Stratford.
She also lost her hair and eyelashes
in the incident and had undergone several operations since.
Doctors had feared that she would be
permanently blinded, but after intensive treatment at a specialist burns unit,
she recovered sight in her left eye and partial sight in her right eye.
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Some pple could be so wicked and heartless, no matter what she might have done to her, why must it lead to acid bath. May God pls help he to get back to normal.
ReplyDeleteBefore people because dey hear d woman wear niqab, thought it was a muslim woman and start abusing Muslims, not knowing dt anyone can wear it to harm someone. D truth is out shame on dos dt abuse d muslim women.
ReplyDeleteHo might ve done ds 2 ds young Nigerian, even if she committed any sin,God save us, well i dnt tnk d person dat did ds has blood running 2tru his/her veins, d government, police or wateva shud gt 2 d root of ds nd nt letting it die off lyk other cases God! Pple can b heartless
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