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Acid attacks

June 2024

  • Yellow tape with words 'police line do not cross on it' in black font

    Acid offences up 75% in UK but only 8% go to court, data suggests

    Acid Survivors Trust International calls for more focus on prevention in similar strategy to that for knife crime

October 2021

  • Milad Rouf

    Man who put on fat suit disguise to throw acid on ex-girlfriend jailed

    The medical student was disguised in a fat suit when he threw sulphuric acid over his ex-girlfriend Rym Alaoui
    Brighton acid attacker, Milad Rouf, jailed for 15 years

July 2020

  • Depilex: beauty salon for acid burn victims, Lahore, Pakistan - 12 Aug 2009<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Sipa/REX/Shutterstock (998969h) Acid burn victim Saria, 22, makes up a woman Depilex: beauty salon for acid burn victims, Lahore, Pakistan - 12 Aug 2009 In 2003 premier beautician and Pakistani businesswoman Massarat Misbah set up the charitable organisation ‘Smile Again’ in order to help women who have been victims of acid or arson attacks. With help from the organisation’s Italian counterpart, she offers reconstructive surgery at reduced prices and helps the women integrate back into society. As part of this she trains some of the women to work as beauticians in her salons. Saria, 22, was the victim of an acid attack six years ago by her fiancé. He attacked her after she resisted when he attempted to take her away from her family’s home by force.

    'Now I'm independent': the Pakistan beauty salons employing acid attack survivors

    A job scheme for women who may otherwise be shunned as outcasts is giving many the opportunity to rebuild their lives

February 2020

  • Close friends Reenah Ntoreinwe (left) and Linette Kirungi. They met each other as acid attack survivors

    Acid attack survivors in Uganda - in pictures

    Acid attacks have been on the rise in Uganda. Organisations such as End Acid Violence Uganda are pushing for a law that would see harsher punishments for perpetrators such as a ‘no bail policy’, satisfactory compensation for victims, and implementation of a medical care policy paid for by the government. End Acid Violence Uganda officers make regular home visits to survivors to offer support and guidance.

June 2019

  • Dirty God - film still with Vicky Knight

    Dirty God review – brave debut powers acid-attack drama

    Real-life fire survivor and first-time actor Vicky Knight impresses as a young woman recovering from a horrific assault by her boyfriend

May 2019

  • Actress and burn survivor Vicky Knight. Photo by Linda Nylind. 9/5/2019.

    'I hid my scars for years ... I thought I was only good for horror movies'

    A terrible fire left Vicky Knight physically and mentally scarred. Now a film role as the victim of an acid attack has changed her life – and led her to love her body

April 2019

  • DWP sign

    Tribunal restores benefit payments to acid attack victim

  • Indian model and acid attack survivor Reshma Qureshi has makeup applied before modelling designs by Archana Kochhar during New York Fashion Week.

    'He thought he'd ruin me': Indian acid attack survivor and model speaks out

March 2019

  • An artist’s sketch of the man, who cannot be named, and his co-defendants at Worcester crown court.

    Father jailed over acid attack plot against three-year-old son

    Man jailed for 16 years for organising ‘monstrous’ attack to win custody of his child

December 2018

  • Police cordon.

    London acid attack victim in hospital after 'corrosive' liquid thrown

  • Daniel Rotariu appears on the Good Morning Britain TV show in July 2017.

    Acid attack victim says police could have stopped his assailant

November 2018

  • Police outside the Edinburgh property where the attack took place.

    Edinburgh woman seriously injured after doorstep 'acid' attack

    Masked man threw corrosive substance at woman, 37, in what police believe was targeted attack
  • Picture of Kateryna Handzyuk with a candle next to it at rally.

    Ukraine activist Kateryna Handzyuk dies from acid attack

    Campaigner’s death sparks protests and EU concern about violence against civil society
  • Offenders caught with dangerous acids without a licence could now be jailed for two years.

    Acid attacks: offenders face jail for possession without licence

    Possession of dangerous acids now unlawful without licence in crackdown on lethal assaults

August 2018

  • Stefan Sylvestre

    Katie Piper's acid attacker to be released from prison

  • Xeneral Webster

    UK teenager jailed for 17 years over fatal acid attack

May 2018

  • Berlinah Wallace

    Berlinah Wallace jailed for life for 'sadistic' acid attack on Mark van Dongen

  • Berlinah Wallace

    Acid attacker should spend life in jail, says victim's father

  • Mark van Dongen

    'Kill me now': the acid attack that led Mark van Dongen to euthanasia

  • Brixton tube station

    Woman in hospital after suspected acid attack in Brixton

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