Looks like the coward died in the Thames [edit by MNHQ]

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Police think Abdul Shokoor Ezedi "died in the Thames", having last been seen leaning over Chelsea bridge.

Couldn't face the disability and disfigurement that he had attempted to inflict on helpless girls, but rebounded onto himself , maybe.

Couldn't face justice - coward

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-68255937

If he is being hidden, and without medical treatment, wouldn't the corrosive liquid continue to eat away at his tissue? If so, it's possible that it's killed him anyway. Otherwise, infection will set in and he'll probably die from that, so it's unlikely that he's going to be alive for too much longer.

I'm not convinced, be great if it was true.

Here's hoping

They say they are searching the Thames, as far as that is possible. It's a wide river, with a very strong tidal flow, and although most of the last week the flow has been normal, there's been a couple of days (Fri/Sat?) when there was an amber warning for strong ebb tide. There are also moored boats/buoys where a body could get trapped, plus river traffic (a body might not remain intact after a collision)

It can take weeks or months for the Thames to give up a body.

The Thames Barrier hasn't been closed in the last week IIRC

(I'll see if I can find which way the tide was going around 23:30 last Wednesday)

I thought suicide was the most likely thing when the police couldn't find him.

Very possibly, and of course claiming he may be dead could also be used to avoid creating unpleasantness among that community

I thought they were saying he'd been sighted in North Tyneside yesterday. He wouldn't live long with those wounds anyway as they'll be infected which will eventually reach the bloodstream.

Because it was, late at night, he had his hood up and his photo hadn't been widely seen on the night of the attack. A lot of CCTV isn't static so won't only be on one point. You wouldn't hear someone fall into the Thames unless they screamed and even then with the noise of a big city and the water they may not be heard.

He's most likely dead.

The last CCTV sighting was around 11:30 pm

The news of the attack was only just beginning to be reported (around 10pm, it began, I think) and there was no published description of the attacker at that point, and that he had distinctive facial injuries wasn't publicised until the next day.

So even if people had seen someone with a wound, they wouldn't have known he was wanted by the police. They might have come forward the next day, once they realised the significance of what they'd seen (which would have helped the police know where to start examining the CCTV)

Let’s hope he does wash up somewhere so his victims can rest easy knowing he’s definitely dead, dead’s better than going to prison in my opinion.

Not sighted in the North East to the best of my knowledge but there were raids yesterday at a couple of addresses and surrounding park area one of which is down the road from me.

Hopefully he'll wash up soon

It’s almost certain he is/was a narcissist and will have been devastated that he suffered the disfiguring injuries he wanted to inflict on his victims. He didn’t foresee that and that together with the likelihood of judicial punishment would make living not worthwhile. He probably anticipated only a short prison sentence and then to get on with his life and and then, what with the injury and pain, his plans would have changed.
Police will still be on the lookout and security services at airports and seaports on alert just in case.
Not a satisfactory conclusion but maybe that’s what he intended.
And I don’t for a minute think his “ conversion” was genuine, though some gullible church people may have been persuaded and agreed to give him good character references.

I hope his last moments were filled with the most unimaginable terror, the hideous fucking monster.

And if he's alive, I hope it's not for long.

According to what I found by googling, it was low tide at Chelsea Bridge at 20:48 on 31 Jan.

So if he went in the river, the tide would have taken a body upstream initially assuming he jumped at around 11:30

I thought ending up in the river seemed the likeliest scenario once it was clear he had been walking along the riverbank and crossing a number of bridges. I'm a little surprised, however, that no-one saw him go in - it's a busy bridge, with a coffee stall at one end

He'll turn up- another woman will be sexually assaulted or have chemicals thrown in her face and her child attacked. The Met will have their excuse ready then.

Police have said they have seen him go on the bridge but not coming off

My heart goes out to that poor woman. 'Life changing injuries'. Does that mean she was blinded?

I’m one eye potentially

They've not been specific.

They have said life-changing, and have said she might lose the sight in one eye. And that she's still heavily sedated in hospital. But nothing on the full extent, and the poor woman is entitled to her privacy unless and until she decides otherwise. So I doubt we'll hear much beyond what has already been said

Ah well, even as an atheist, it's sort of possible to feel comforted that there might be an interventionist God. But I don' think the Met should be allowed to assume it. I don't feel lessened, hoping he died in agony, but I also don't want any 'Case Closed' based on this either, for the sake of the victims.

What a shame they didn't catch him... He would have been tortured and slaughtered in prison- totally deservedly.
Utter revolting, cowardly excuse for a human being.

I didn't realise he was injured as part of the attack. That makes more sense why they think he has died as that is a major injury!

Even if he hasn't gone into the water, he's probably got a raging infection by now and his face will be rotting off.

If he's not yet dead then he soon will be, watery grave or not.