Police are now treating the acid attack that targeted a young woman celebrating her 21st birthday and her cousin as a hate crime. Jameel Mukhtar, 37, and his cousin Resham Khan suffered devastating injuries in the attack in east London last week.
Officers investigating the incident have released images of John Tomlin who is wanted in connection with the attack. A crowdfunding page which was set up by Resham’s friends to help her and her cousin has raised almost £20,000 in under two days.
Meanwhile a second attack took place in Tower Hamlets in which a man was rushed to hospital after thugs squirted bleach before stealing his car which was later recovered in a nearby street.
The attack happened when a car pulled up alongside the victim’s vehicle before one of the occupants squirted a noxious substance at the driver, police said.
The victim was treated by paramedics at the scene in front of a crowd of shocked onlookers.
The victim, a 23-year-old man, was then taken to an east London hospital, where he was treated for minor injuries which are not thought life-threatening.
No arrests have been made.
