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Five men charged over acid attack on three-year-old British boy

 

(Reuters) - British police on Wednesday said it charged five men for a suspected acid attack on a three-year-old boy in the English city of Worcester.

 

The five men were charged with "conspiracy to commit grievous bodily harm", West Mercia police said in a statement: 

https://www.westmercia.police.uk/article/49578/Five-men-charged-following-Worcester-acid-attack

 

The men will appear at Kidderminster Magistrates' Court on Wednesday morning, the police said.

 

The boy was taken to hospital with serious burns to his arm and face after the incident at the Home Bargains store in Worcester, central England, on Saturday.

 

"He has since been discharged but the long-term implications of his injuries are unknown at this time," West Mercia police said.

 

The police had arrested https://bit.ly/2JQ2oUW the fifth man in connection with the on-going investigation on Tuesday and said it believed the incident to be an isolated one without a wider risk to the public.

 

(Reporting by Shubham Kalia in Bengaluru; Editing by Sunil Nair)

 
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4 minutes ago, theguyfromanotherforum said:

Why no names?

From the West Mercia Police Press Release:

 

“For legal reasons, the force has taken the decision not to name the defendants.“

 

Barstool pundits will of course have more information on this than the police dealing with the case.

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10 minutes ago, simple1 said:

Congrats for the UK Police for rapid arrests.

 

These attacks are horrendous and if the victim/s survive often life changing injuries. These attacks are not only carried out by members of the Muslim community. From the article below dated 07/2017 it appears UK criminal legislation has yet to catch up with this type of crime; hopefully new law/s can quickly be enacted, with suitably harsh sentencing provided.

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-40559973

 

If attackers are indeed living in the UK as asylum seekers / dual citizens after serving their entire sentence should, if legally possible, be deported.

 

EDIT. New law enacted, though IMO not tough enough.

 

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/acid-attacks-uk-sentences-law-change-carrying-threatening-possessing-corrosive-substances-a8233516.html

 

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Terrible course of events. Shows me even if you have the tightest gun controls in the world if people are bent on hurting others  they will just find another way ie knives/acid/hammers/vehicles. Where I'm from (Canada) they have tough gun laws also but sharing the border with the U.S. negates those measures. We've had our share of knife attacks also plus the ol run people down in the street method. If the hate is there people are pretty resourceful.

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1 hour ago, dick dasterdly said:

As if it's not depressing enough that anyone would deliberately cause such harm to a three year old child..... the boy's father is reported to be one of the sub-species (i.e. less than human or animal) responsible for the attack ☹️.

What did amuse me was in one report i read ,someone said they thought the attacker was a "white" man . but i suppose they are just not British white men  by the looks .

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