acid attacks

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

For the first time since leftist Mayor Sadiq Khan was elected, more Londoners think he is performing “badly” than “well”.

Former Labour MP Claudia Webbe has been found guilty of harassment after threatening to throw acid at her boyfriend’s female friend.

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

Ofcom has announced that it will not probe further into comedienne Jo Brand suggesting people throw battery acid at politicians during a radio programme.

A suspect who allegedly threw battery acid into another man’s face in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on Friday has been arrested.

Six people, including two children, were treated for exposure to a suspected chemical substance following an attempted robbery at a Co-op in Birmingham.

West Midlands Police officers were attacked and had seemingly volatile chemicals thrown on them less than 24 hours after a colleague was mown down in a hijacked police vehicle.

Volunteers of a French civil defence group were attacked twice last weekend, with one of the attacks seeing the volunteers sprayed with acid.

Three people had acid thrown on them in two separate incidents over just a few hours in London, including a market stall vendor targeted by people “wearing burqas”.

The Metropolitan Police Service has confirmed that it will not be taking any further action over comments made by comedian Jo Brand when she joked about throwing battery acid at politicians.

A young homeless man was rushed to hospital after being sprayed in the face and hands with a corrosive substance on Paris’s subway on Friday.

Nine migration-background men have been sentenced for a brutal and unprovoked series of violent assaults involving corrosive substances, described as “homophobic” in the media.

Acid attackers targetted victims including an 11-year-old child and a 72-year-old pensioner in the first few months of 2018 in Cambridgeshire, hitherto more famous for its university colleges and cathedrals than violent crime.

A man from Tower Hamlets, east London, was rushed to hospital after having ammonia thrown at him — the same day another man in north London was treated after having been attacked with a corrosive substance.

A 21-year-old man is in hospital after having a corrosive substance thrown in his face in northeast London. The attack happened in the small hours of Thursday morning on Stoke Newington High Street, with police saying that the victim also

Three ruthless carjackers have been convicted for attacking disabled boxer Michael Watson MBE, his carer, and a teenage couple with acid in two separate incidents.

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

Four men have been arrested in connection to an acid attack on a three-year-old boy in Worcester, England, on Saturday.

Police are seeking three men who may have information about a shocking acid attack on a three-year-old boy in Worcester, England.

A Christian woman in Pakistan was murdered in an acid attack after refusing to marry a Muslim man.

A man has been convicted of manslaughter after a nurse he splashed with “industrial-strength corrosive sulphuric acid” contracted sepsis and died.

After witnessing people being sprayed with an ‘unknown substance’ as part of a suspected acid attack, a fast food worker has questioned why he bothered leaving Afghanistan to be more secure when the UK “is getting just as bad”. Police

A shopkeeper who witnessed a mass brawl which ended with one teenager being stabbed multiple times and another having a corrosive substance thrown in his face in multicultural Birmingham said he was “used to” such scenes.

Sentencing a teenager for a spree of acid attacks in London that left victims with “life-changing injuries”, a judge has warned the violent use of corrosive liquids is a “serious and growing problem” in the UK capital.

Police constables in Sadiq Khan’s London are receiving devices designed for war zones so they can treat acid attack victims on the streets.

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.

Britain’s acid attack epidemic is spreading from its focal point in Sadiq Khan’s London to the historic Home Counties which surround it.

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.

A teenager has been arrested after multiple victims were sprayed with acid around a busy shopping mall in east London on Saturday night. Officers were called to the scene of the attacks at the Stratford Centre, near the Olympic Park,

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.

Some 313 people were arrested during this year’s Notting Hill Carnival with a further 656 made proactively in the weeks beforehand, and now the boss of the London Police Federation has called time on the annual party which is known

London has experienced again the annual Notting Hill Carnival, which went ahead on Sunday and Monday after hundreds of arrests.

London police have warned people to prepare for acid attacks and an inflow of opportunist thugs using the Grenfell fire tragedy as a pretext for trouble at this year’s Notting Hill Carnival.