Remember the 20-year-old Nigerian girl that was left
disfigured after acid was thrown in her face as she walked home on Sunday
December 30th 2012? (if you missed the story read it HERE) Well, now the UK
police are suggesting Naomi Oni may have thrown the burning acid 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.
Click to read more after the cut...
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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