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For sheer evil, horror and brutality, I suspect that between now and December 31, 2009, it's going to be difficult to find a crime that tops this one!! Are vicious these criminals human like the rest of us?? This act is sick beyond belief!
Three burnt in brutal acid attack
Paul Henry
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Two passengers and the driver of a taxi were burnt with battery acid by two men during morning peak hour traffic on Courtney Walsh Drive in Half-Way-Tree yesterday.
According to people claiming to be witnesses, the three injured persons, among them a woman, were in a Nissan Bluebird taxi when the driver of a Toyota Probox used the car to pin the taxi between the perimeter wall of the Melbourne Oval and a utility pole at about 8:00 am.
Two men then alighted from the Probox and doused the woman, who was seated in the front, the driver, and a male passenger in the back seat with two buckets of battery acid.
The woman is said to have received burns to her head, face, back and other parts of her body, while the driver of the taxi received minor burns.
The injured were rushed to the Kingston Public Hospital.
The attackers escaped in the Probox.
One person on the scene, who appeared to know the woman who was burnt, suggested that she was attacked by a stalker. But police on the scene were unable to confirm that story.
"I'm unable to say who was the intended target, but it was an intentional attack. Whoever did this; it was a brutal act," said a policeman.
People said they became aware of the attack when the injured woman started to scream and ran from the scene while her skin and clothing were being dissolved by the black substance.
"I thought it was fire when I saw the smoke until the lady ran past, tearing off her clothes and screaming," one woman said.
Molten pieces of clothing, the woman's shoes, and the damaged inside of the vehicle told a grim tale of the attack.
Three burnt in brutal acid attack
Paul Henry
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Two passengers and the driver of a taxi were burnt with battery acid by two men during morning peak hour traffic on Courtney Walsh Drive in Half-Way-Tree yesterday.
According to people claiming to be witnesses, the three injured persons, among them a woman, were in a Nissan Bluebird taxi when the driver of a Toyota Probox used the car to pin the taxi between the perimeter wall of the Melbourne Oval and a utility pole at about 8:00 am.
Two men then alighted from the Probox and doused the woman, who was seated in the front, the driver, and a male passenger in the back seat with two buckets of battery acid.
The woman is said to have received burns to her head, face, back and other parts of her body, while the driver of the taxi received minor burns.
The injured were rushed to the Kingston Public Hospital.
The attackers escaped in the Probox.
One person on the scene, who appeared to know the woman who was burnt, suggested that she was attacked by a stalker. But police on the scene were unable to confirm that story.
"I'm unable to say who was the intended target, but it was an intentional attack. Whoever did this; it was a brutal act," said a policeman.
People said they became aware of the attack when the injured woman started to scream and ran from the scene while her skin and clothing were being dissolved by the black substance.
"I thought it was fire when I saw the smoke until the lady ran past, tearing off her clothes and screaming," one woman said.
Molten pieces of clothing, the woman's shoes, and the damaged inside of the vehicle told a grim tale of the attack.
Special Constable Ann-Marie Perkins displays burns received after her husband, also a cop, allegedly doused her with acid during a dispute at their home in Braeton, St Catherine. The policewoman alleged that her man doused her with the acid during a fight two weeks ago over another woman whom she said had phoned him at their home about 1:00 am. (Photo: Bryan Cummings) A woman special constable caught in an apparent love triangle, is accusing the police of failing to arrest her husband, also a cop, after she suffered horrible acid burns from her breast to her lower abdomen.
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