21 year old acid victim Naomi Oni was disfigured for life after an unknown person wearing a Niqāb
threw acid in
her face as she walked home from work on Sunday December 30th 2012 in
Lodge Avenue Dagenham, east London, (If you missed qit, read about it HERE)
Naomi
only described her attacker as a woman wearing an Islamic veil. Over a
year later, police has been able to identify the person behind the veil.
It was her jealous 21 year old friend, Mary Konye.
According to new reports released by police and tendered in court, Mary, a student at Hertfordshire
university, disguised herself in a Niqāb, which showed only her eyes and closely
followed Naomi home and allegedly poured the acid on her when they got
to a deserted area. She fled the scene immediately after.
Naomi suffered
horrific burns on her face and chest and
was left scarred for life. Continue...
Mary Konye, who has since been arrested
and facing trial, had been Naomi's friend since secondary school. Mary
had always been jealous of Naomi, the court heard, and when they fought
Mary decided she wanted Naomi disfigured for life and attacked her with
acid.
Naomi Oni's lawyer said in court today:
'Naomi will tell you about her friendship with the defendant. In
particular she will tell you how in the past they had an up and down
relationship and how the defendant had admitted to her that on one
occasion in anger she threatened to throw acid at Naomi.
'There was a reason why the defendant
would have chosen to make such an unusual sort of threat. In the past
the two of them had discussed a young woman called Katie Piper.
'She was a woman who had acid thrown at her and that attack had been reported in the media.
'Naomi
and the defendant had discussed this and it appears that the defendant
knew that Naomi had been particularly moved by Katie Piper’s ordeal.
'Naomi
stated that she and the defendant had fallen out in the past and says
that there was an occasion during a row when she called the defendant
ugly.
'She says that
they were later back on speaking terms and importantly, that the
defendant said to her that she (the defendant) had been so angry at the
time that she had said to someone else, a friend of the defendant’s
called Kamilah Andrews, that she (the defendant) wanted to throw acid at
Naomi.
'Naomi believed that the defendant had realised just how upset she had been by Katie Piper’s horrible ordeal.'
'She could not see the face of the
person, just the light-brown coloured skin around the eyes. She believed
it was a female. The woman was staring at her.
'All of a sudden Naomi felt a liquid
being thrown into her face. She screamed and immediately felt her face
burning. She could smell her skin and hair burning. She immediately ran
home.
Mary Konye denies pouring acid on Naomi. The trial continues...
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