Remember the Nigerian girl that was left disfigured after acid was thrown in her face as she walked home on Sunday December 30th 2012? (read story HERE) Now the UK police are humming another tune. They are suggesting Naomi Oni may have thrown the burning liquid on herself. But for what purpose? Below is how the UK Daily Mail is reporting it...
Police are believed to have seized a
computer belonging to a young woman who was badly scarred in an acid attack
amid suspicions that she may have caused the injuries herself. But her family
fear that detectives are not doing enough to catch the perpetrator of the
attack and are focusing on a 'crazy' line of inquiry.
Naomi Oni, 20, was left with horrific
injuries following the incident which happened as she left work at the end of
last year and was in hospital for nearly a month receiving treatment.
Police are understood to have taken Miss
Oni's laptop and are said to have discovered that she had searched the internet
for websites about acid attacks before she received her injuries.
Searches are said to include
material on Katie Piper, the former model who has campaigned for facial
disfigurement victims since she was scarred in an acid attack in 2008,
according to the Sunday Times.
Officers are said to have
asked Miss Oni's relatives whether she may have inflicted the injuries on
herself but her boyfriend Ato Owede, 23, has dismissed that line of inquiry as
'crazy'.
He told the Sunday Times:
'They (the police) need to keep investigating.
'They're concentrating on
the wrong things at the moment in terms of (her) researching acid attacks and
stuff like that. 'They are just coming to a silly conclusion.'
Naomi suffered horrific
burns to her face, leg, arm and head and was left partially blind after a
person dressed in a niqab threw acid over her as she returned to her home in
Dagenham following a shift a the Victoria's Secret store in the Westfield
Shopping Centre in Stratford.
She also lost her hair and
eyelashes in the incident and has undergone several operations since.
Doctors had initially feared
that she would be permanently blinded, but following intensive treatment at a
specialist burns unit she recovered sight in her left eye and partial sight in
her right eye.
Miss Oni made an emotional
appearance on ITV's This Morning.
It is understood that police
sought to retrieve her laptop from her home on January 28, but were unable to
find it. It was handed over to officers by Miss Oni's disabled mother Marian
Yalekhue.
She is believed to have told
detectives that she had searched websites relating to acid attacks but has
dismissed that she injured herself.
A family friend, Sheila
Maclean, described it as 'innocuous' that Miss Oni may have watched a Channel 4
documentary on Miss Piper on her computer.
She said that her interest
in Miss Piper was fuelled by an interest in make up.
Miss Oni's case has
attracted much sympathy and top American cosmetic surgeon Cap Lesesne has
offered to operate on her injuries for free.
She is said to be due to
meet Miss Piper soon.
A spokesman for the
Metropolitan Police said that officers are 'continuing to look at a number of
articles of evidence'. No arrests have yet been made in the case.
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