Acid Attack

MP Claudia Webbe has survived the prospect of facing an automatic recall petition after her sentence for harassing a women was reduced on appeal.

The Japanese embassy in Paris has warned its nationals to be on alert after a Japanese citizen was attacked with acid earlier this month.

A 19-year-old Afghan migrant was arrested in Switzerland after allegedly spraying a woman with acid in an underground car park. 

Eleven Metropolitan police officers were injured in a suspected vitriolage attack during a drugs bust in the North London borough of Barnet.

The Metropolitan Police have confirmed they are investigating a joke made by a British comedian about right-wing politicians having battery acid thrown at them after a complaint was made about incitement to violence. 

A woman who worked as the head of policy at the charity Happy City called for an acid attack on Nigel Farage after the Brexit Party leader had had a milkshake thrown at him.

A father has been found guilty of organising the spraying his own son with acid at a Home Bargains store in Worcester, England, along with five other men the prosecution said had been enlisted into the plot.

An amendment tacked onto the British Offensive Weapons Bill which would draw .50 calibre rifles used by target shooting enthusiasts into the legislation may be defeated by a group pro-Brexit parliamentarians as a show of force and warning to the Prime Minister over her cavalier attitude to delivering Brexit.

The shoplifter has allegedly attacked and injured three people have injured in a suspected acid attack in West London after they challenged him for stealing.

The United Kingdom’s surge of the previously unheard of phenomenon of acid attacks has seen an average of 15 a week over the past three years, with the vast majority taking place in the crime-struck capital, London. 

Xeneral Webster, 19, was sentenced to 17 years in prison for manslaughter after 47-year-old nurse Joanne Rand died following an acid attack.

A 39-year-old Afghan national was charged and remanded in custody on Wednesday for conspiracy to commit Grievous Bodily Harm (GBH) after his three-year-old son was attacked with sulphuric acid in a homewares discount store last week.

Five men have been charged with conspiracy to commit grievous bodily harm over a suspected acid attack on a three-year-old boy in the West Midlands region of England.

LONDON (AP) — British police have arrested a fifth man in a suspected acid attack on a three-year-old boy.

The father of the three-year-old victim of an acid attack has been confirmed as one of the detainees being questioned after police suggested the assault was the result of a “community” dispute.

An 18-year-old male has suffered possibly “life-changing” injuries after being attacked with a knuckleduster and sprayed with a noxious substance and two males, including a 15-year-old boy, were stabbed over the weekend in London.

YouTube prankster Arya Mosallah has been criticized for a prank where he threw water at people in public amid an acid attack epidemic in Britain.

Delivery drivers have branded large parts of London “no-go zones” in which acid attacks and rampant knife crime have made them too fearful to work.

The frequency of vicious acid attacks has turned parts of the UK’s capital city into “no go zones,” a former Labour minister has said.

Police have revealed that Britain is one of the world’s worst countries on earth for acid attacks, with more than 800 now recorded each year.

The rate of acid attacks and other acid-related offences being committed in London has soared in recent years, while the average age of suspect for the crime has plummeted, with children now the most common age group attacking others with corrosive substances.

PARIS (AP) — The four American college students attacked with acid at a Marseille train station have forgiven their assailant, who reportedly suffers from a mental illness, a university spokesman said Monday.

Two American women were rushed to hospital on Sunday after a woman sprayed hydrochloric acid in their faces.

Home Secretary Amber Rudd has said she will back police using ‘stop and search’ tactics after the massive surge in knife and acid attacks seen after the Tories rolled back the practice in 2014.

Police have found “emerging links” between violent gang crime and the recent surge in acid and moped attacks across the London area.

A man has been arrested following yet another suspected acid attack in London, said to have left its victims with “life-changing” injuries.

A young woman was badly hurt and her cousin left in a coma after a man hurled acid at the pair as their car stopped at a red light driving through Beckton, East London, on Wednesday.

The UK now has the highest number of reported acid attacks per person, with 1,800 assaults using corrosive liquid since 2010 in London alone, according to charity Acid Survivors Trust International (ASTI). The number of assaults using acid and corrosive

A family has suffered injuries described as “life-changing” after ‘strong acid’ was thrown at a two year old boy and his parents on a street in North London. Emergency services were called to a residential street in Islington on Saturday

Turkish authorities arrested a man for throwing sulphuric acid on his three-year-old nephew at a high-end Istanbul restaurant.

Billal Kidd­ Mujahideen and his brother briefly became the most wanted men the UK last week, following a gruesome acid attack on a mother of six. More than a week after Billal’s religious affiliations were exposed, however, the BBC and most

A man suffered potentially “life-changing” injuries after being doused in acid outside a UK movie theater following a screening of the film Straight Outta Compton.

Attackers on a motorcycle threw acid into the faces of three teenage girls on their way to school in western Afghanistan’s Herat province on Saturday, according to officials.