Acid attack in Clapham

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Has anyone else seen this horrible news story? Apparently 9 people have been injured, looks like the original targets were a woman and two children.

What is WRONG with people?!

If he had a corrosive substance with him it was likely premeditated.

I think he's been arrested

Well yes.. nobody can claim any kind of acid attack wasn't pre-meditated really. Nobody 'happens' to just carry it around.. and if they do.. then to me that means they are being pre-meditative either way!

What I meant was perhaps she was leaving him or had left and was trying to stop him seeing his kids and that was a possible motive. Or a new partner in the mix and him wanting to be mr macho

It's truly awful, I find these stories so upsetting. I've been refreshing constantly for updates just to know they are okay and not going to be permanently impacted for life from this

Sadly it looks like domestic violence as usual. They were his own children.

Hardly. Try living in Hackney! It looks like domestic violence sadly.

This is so awful. 😞

And sadly almost certainly someone known to the victim in this case it looks like the partner.

What I meant was perhaps she was leaving him or had left and was trying to stop him seeing his kids and that was a possible motive. Or a new partner in the mix and him wanting to be mr macho.

Just leaving him would be enough.

The most dangerous time for domestic abuse victims is when they try to leave

Most of the time acid attacks are ‘personal’ so victim will usually be a partner, ex-partner or gang related. Rare to be random.

This is awful, and must be domestic. I can’t fathom anyone hurting their own children. It’s a horrible world we live in.

It has been confirmed on BBC that they know each other. And that two of them will have life changing injuries 😞

Sigh. Hideous. Hope they bang up
the little freak for years.

Just issued by Metro
“This morning the Met confirmed the victims were a 31-year-old woman and her two daughters, aged eight and three.
All three of them are still in hospital, and the injuries suffered by the mum and younger child ‘could be life changing’.
Superintendent Gabriel Cameron also confirmed this morning that the substance used in the attack was an alkaline.”

An alkaline burn is as bad as acid. Used in soap making it’s easy to obtain and burns even if just a ‘dot splash’ on the skin. When soapmaking most people keep a bottle of vinegar at hand to neutralise any splashes and wear protective goggles, gloves and long sleeves.

Awful.
Hope the bastard spilt some on himself as well.

Who carries acid or whatever it is around with them? Nobody does that unless they intend to do something with it. We all know which types love doing that.

No. This is what you get when men grow up with a sense of entitlement and zero respect for human life.

Violence against women is becoming so commonplace. That guy who tried to attack the women in a flat wearing body armour with a crossbow yesterday too. We need stalking to be taken far more seriously.

Could be that the other hospitals had better departments to deal with the casualties I.e they had plastic surgeons or higher levels of niche/specialist care maybe? I know they do this with RTA so wondering if this is the same.

this is one of my biggest fears as it could so easily happen to anyone. Poor children and other victims. I hope they catch the bastard who did it.

they should dip his testicles in acid as his punishment

This is so sad, throwing a child to the ground as well as the attack

Poor, poor children and woman

Bollocks. White British men kill and harass their partners and ex partners all the time. "Honour" killings are culturally specific but quite different in nature.

Nothing to do with mental health (or culture) and everything to do with being a toxic entitled male, once again. Lets not make excuses, these men are evil.

See also Emma Pattison and her daughter.

I hate the human race sometimes. What have we become? Animals don’t steep to the level of cruelty and depravity that humans do.

I hope you're not being serious! Plenty of people are mentally unwell or desperate and don't throw acid at children.

That poor family. I have no words.

The sentencing for acid attacks is usually quite low, because it predominantly affects women.
I think acid attacks should carry a full life sentence without possibility of parole, nobody who can commit an acid attack is safe to be released publicly.
It's one of the worst forms of violence imo.

think acid attacks should carry a full life sentence without possibility of parole, nobody who can commit an acid attack is safe to be released publicly.

This will deter those fuckers.