A young woman suffered horrific facial burns after a woman wearing a Muslim veil threw acid in her face.
Naomi Oni, 20, was walking home after finishing work at lingerie shop Victoria’s Secret when the woman, wearing a niqab – which reveals only the eyes – appeared and launched the apparently random attack.
It is not known whether the attack was motivated by the victim’s work for the store.
Initially, doctors feared the shop assistant had been blinded. But after a month’s treatment in a specialist burns unit, Miss Oni has recovered sight in her left eye and partial vision in her right.
Miss Oni has only recently been discharged from hospital but has decided to speak out to help police catch her attacker.
She said: ‘I look in the mirror and it just isn’t me. I’ll never look the same again.
I’ve always been outgoing and confident – used to getting attention for the way I dress or my hair – but now I don’t want anyone looking at me.
‘I don’t want people to see me in public. I don’t want to get the Tube or the bus. If I have to go to the hospital I take a taxi.
‘I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to go back to my job.
‘I was planning to go to college in September to study media and fashion, but I don’t even know if I’ll be able to do that.’
On December 30, Miss Oni took the bus home to Dagenham, East London after finishing a late shift at Victoria’s Secret in the Westfield shopping centre in nearby Stratford.
It was around 12.40am, and she was just five minutes from the council flat she shares with her disabled mother, when she saw the woman and felt a ‘splash’ on her face. She said: ‘It burned and I screamed out.
‘I started running and screaming, holding my face, all the way home. I didn’t look back. I was hysterical. Luckily my godmother, who is a pharmacist, was at home with my mum and she helped me and kept dipping my face in water and trying to calm me down until the police and ambulance got there.’
Miss Oni has no idea why anyone would attack her.
She faces months, if not years, of skin grafts and further plastic surgery and even then is likely to be left with severe facial scarring.
Miss Oni is the sole carer for her 52-year-old mother. They are too afraid to go back to their flat and are currently sleeping on a friend’s sofa-bed.
A Scotland Yard spokesman said acid attacks were ‘extremely rare’ and that detectives were keeping an ‘open mind’.
Anyone with information should contact police on 0203 276 1058 or Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.
Hidden: Police have not managed to identify who attacked Ms Oni because they were wearing a niqab (file picture)
Devastating: Ms Oni had just finished a shift at Westfield Stratford shopping centre and was just minutes from home when the attack occurred
To begin with, BAN ALL face coverings in public places. Second, deport ALL Muslims and Exile ALL converts to Islam…NOW!
re: Mr. John Hurren;
May we just skip over your first suggestion and go straight to your second? lol. I really like that one!
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re: John Hurren;
Thank you so much for the wonderful compliment !!
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the cops are either plain daft or the powers to be dont know how to tackle internal terrorism in case it is misunderstood as anti islam, i aint anti islam but imagine young youths wearing balaclavas on estates the average person would never tolerate it. also i am sure it was westfield and other shopping centres that banned a fashion fad when these new hoodies came out with a face mask and duh huh whats a full face islamic veil! daft leftest appeasers and do gooders messing things up again!
re: truthbeknown;
The police and these governmental agencies know very well how to deal with terrorism. They are simply appeasing the muslims to further their agenda of a worldwide islamic caliphate. Case in point, here in the states.. “WE” ..the ones who speak out in defence of the Judeo-Christians, the Jewish, the Hindus, the Buddhists and the muslim women and children, are labeled as terrorists. According to our government, “WE” the voice of the persecuted are terrorists. The ‘poor little muslims’ are innocent and just misunderstood. The muslim hatred and violence expressed through beheading Christians, burning their churches down, molesting our daughters, raping our women, “dis-honour murdering’, stoning, acid-burning their own women and little girls… All of this is okay.
But, just let us try to be a voice for them and tell their story to the world in the hopes of ending these evil atrocities… and “WE” are a hate group.
That is okay.. because “WE” know the truth.. and so does Our Lord thy God. We follow His Law.. not the inept laws of corrupt earthly governments.
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forgot to mention perhaps these sharia suppoters would now apply sharia law and cut the hands of the person that threw the acid! oh forgot sharia is to suppress us not for them!
This is a terriost attack on the western people they are using there hijab to committee these crimes Ban them Now!!!!!
re: joanna mouhtaris;
Absolutely!
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