UK- London Nine injured in suspected acid attack, children among injured 01/31/24

[RichardKimble]

He didn't fall to his knees. He face-planted the pavement on the same side of his face where the injury is located:

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That sort of fall usually happens when inebriated or tripped.

 

[Skigh]

That sort of fall usually happens when inebriated or tripped.

Or if the pavement is uneven or there is a pot hole .

 

[Interested_But_Confused]

That sort of fall usually happens when inebriated or tripped.

A split-second before he falls he appears to turn around to look behind him, and as he turns back he misses his footing on what looks like a small pothole and falls on his face.

 

[Skigh]

Clapham chemical attack: Reward of up to £20,000 offered in hunt for Abdul Ezedi as police release new information about his movements

The Metropolitan Police has warned anybody "harbouring or assisting" Ezedi will be arrested as the search is into its fifth day.

news.sky.com

DETECTIVES MAY FEAR EZEDI HAS BEEN SMUGGLED OUT OF THE COUNTRY​

Martin Brunt
Crime correspondent
@skymartinbrunt
It's a carrot-and-stick approach from the police - a big reward for information, but if you have it and you don’t give it to us you’ll be arrested.

Detectives are struggling and must have thought that after four days they would have found their suspect, a desperate man with the best-known facial blemish in Britain, an image that leaps out daily from newspapers and TV screens.

But how desperate is he? New CCTV footage shows him wandering nonchalantly around Tesco two hours after the chemical attack on the woman he was in a relationship with.

And maybe he isn't having to fend for himself and is being harboured by contacts he has made in the past.

The manhunt has been joined by the National Crime Agency, whose core focus is on organised crime.

Police may fear Ezedi is getting help from the people who helped smuggle him into the UK from Afghanistan in the back of a lorry in 2016.

 

[Dotta]

He not only doused the poor woman with chemicals,
but also hit her with his car

 

[Sarahlou]

Clapham chemical attack: Reward of up to £20,000 offered in hunt for Abdul Ezedi as police release new information about his movements

The Metropolitan Police has warned anybody "harbouring or assisting" Ezedi will be arrested as the search is into its fifth day.

news.sky.com

DETECTIVES MAY FEAR EZEDI HAS BEEN SMUGGLED OUT OF THE COUNTRY​

Martin Brunt
Crime correspondent
@skymartinbrunt
It's a carrot-and-stick approach from the police - a big reward for information, but if you have it and you don’t give it to us you’ll be arrested.

Detectives are struggling and must have thought that after four days they would have found their suspect, a desperate man with the best-known facial blemish in Britain, an image that leaps out daily from newspapers and TV screens.

But how desperate is he? New CCTV footage shows him wandering nonchalantly around Tesco two hours after the chemical attack on the woman he was in a relationship with.

And maybe he isn't having to fend for himself and is being harboured by contacts he has made in the past.

The manhunt has been joined by the National Crime Agency, whose core focus is on organised crime.

Police may fear Ezedi is getting help from the people who helped smuggle him into the UK from Afghanistan in the back of a lorry in 2016.

Yeah this what I fear. That he's no longer even in this country and will get away with it.

 

[Skigh]

From Sky article linked above.

It seems as though Martin Brunt is sceptical about the extent of his injuries.

But how desperate is he? New CCTV footage shows him wandering nonchalantly around Tesco two hours after the chemical attack on the woman he was in a relationship with

 

[sunshineray]

But then would he not remain on his knees writhing in pain instead of getting on a tube train and then strolling around Tesco before continuing his travels?

Well not necessarily, fight or flight may have kicked in overridden everything else for the time being?

 

[sunshineray]

He didn't fall to his knees. He face-planted the pavement on the same side of his face where the injury is located:

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I hadn't seen that, the other video stopped before this. He really did take a header. Did his face hit the ground though? Looks like his right arm came down to stop himself.

 

[Skigh]

Well not necessarily, fight or flight may have kicked in overridden everything else for the time being?

I don't think it would last long enough for him to have been seen nonchalantly strolling around Tesco.

 

[Dotta]

"Chemical attacks are happening
'almost weekly'
in Newcastle,
sources at the city's biggest hospital have told LBC after warning of an increase in patients being treated for burns to the face.

Concerned doctors at
Newcastle's Royal Victoria Infirmary
have now told LBC they are treating
'multiple patients a month, if not per week',
who have suffered injuries to their eyes from what is believed to be caustic alkali.

One source said:
'Down in London alkaline attacks aren’t common,
but in Newcastle alkaline attacks to the face like that are getting really, really common'.

'We’re getting multiple, multiple of them a month,
if not per week.

There were two on the ward just before Christmas on the same day.
They were separate.
One had a machete wound to the neck too.

The consultants here who specialise in the retina,
so look after things with these attacks,
have been saying how common it's getting.

Consultants say it’s happening almost weekly.

It’s definitely multiple a month now'."

Chemical attacks happening 'almost weekly', Newcastle doctors warn amid manhunt for Clapham attack suspect | LBC

Chemical attacks are happening 'almost weekly' in Newcastle, sources at the city's biggest hospital have told LBC after warning of an increase in patients being treated for burns to the face.

www.lbc.co.uk

 

[sunshineray]

From Sky article linked above.

It seems as though Martin Brunt is sceptical about the extent of his injuries.

But how desperate is he? New CCTV footage shows him wandering nonchalantly around Tesco two hours after the chemical attack on the woman he was in a relationship with

The top video on the link is the Tesco footage. When he walks out of the store, right at the end of the video, is he raising his arm to hail a cab?

MSN

 

[Skigh]

The top video on the link is the Tesco footage. When he walks out of the store, right at the end of the video, is he raising his arm to hail a cab?

MSN

I think he was in walking distance of Kings Cross station so probably not needing a taxi

 

[SpaceOdyssey]

Agreed. If he was at King's Cross and wanted to get to Tower Hill he's taken a very roundabout route. He could just have jumped on the Circle Line at KC, but he seems to have gone all the way down to Victoria to change onto the District or Circle Lines there.

Maybe he had no destination in mind. He’s been living in Newcastle so might not be familiar with the London Underground system, especially in a hurried panic to get away. You can imagine him just jumping on the first available train to get away from the scene asap.

 

[martinwatts5]

Clapham chemical attack: Reward of up to £20,000 offered in hunt for Abdul Ezedi as police release new information about his movements

The Metropolitan Police has warned anybody "harbouring or assisting" Ezedi will be arrested as the search is into its fifth day.

news.sky.com

DETECTIVES MAY FEAR EZEDI HAS BEEN SMUGGLED OUT OF THE COUNTRY​

Martin Brunt
Crime correspondent
@skymartinbrunt
It's a carrot-and-stick approach from the police - a big reward for information, but if you have it and you don’t give it to us you’ll be arrested.

Detectives are struggling and must have thought that after four days they would have found their suspect, a desperate man with the best-known facial blemish in Britain, an image that leaps out daily from newspapers and TV screens.

But how desperate is he? New CCTV footage shows him wandering nonchalantly around Tesco two hours after the chemical attack on the woman he was in a relationship with.

And maybe he isn't having to fend for himself and is being harboured by contacts he has made in the past.

The manhunt has been joined by the National Crime Agency, whose core focus is on organised crime.

Police may fear Ezedi is getting help from the people who helped smuggle him into the UK from Afghanistan in the back of a lorry in 2016.

I guess the reward is aimed at those who may give information on those who are holding him if that is the case.

 

[LadyL]

Other than trying to hide his face/injury from other shoppers, he could hardly look more chilled. I just don't see how he could be acting like that if he'd almost burned out his eye.

appears to be walking swiftly and easily too

 

[LadyL]

“I want you to go straight to a police station immediately,” he said. “You have a serious injury that needs to be seen to but, more importantly, you must do the right thing and hand yourself in to police.

“This has gone on for long enough.”


This sounds more like a head teacher asking an errant pupil to own up to some minor rule infringement in which he ,the pupil,injured himself.

I was thinking the same but didn't want to offend anyone in this thread.

 

[LadyL]

Anyone helping him who is also in the country because they were granted asylum, their punishment should be deportation.

after finishing a prison sentence

 

[LadyL]

"Chemical attacks are happening
'almost weekly'
in Newcastle,
sources at the city's biggest hospital have told LBC after warning of an increase in patients being treated for burns to the face.

Concerned doctors at
Newcastle's Royal Victoria Infirmary
have now told LBC they are treating
'multiple patients a month, if not per week',
who have suffered injuries to their eyes from what is believed to be caustic alkali.

One source said:
'Down in London alkaline attacks aren’t common,
but in Newcastle alkaline attacks to the face like that are getting really, really common'.

'We’re getting multiple, multiple of them a month,
if not per week.

There were two on the ward just before Christmas on the same day.
They were separate.
One had a machete wound to the neck too.

The consultants here who specialise in the retina,
so look after things with these attacks,
have been saying how common it's getting.

Consultants say it’s happening almost weekly.

It’s definitely multiple a month now'."

Chemical attacks happening 'almost weekly', Newcastle doctors warn amid manhunt for Clapham attack suspect | LBC

Chemical attacks are happening 'almost weekly' in Newcastle, sources at the city's biggest hospital have told LBC after warning of an increase in patients being treated for burns to the face.

www.lbc.co.uk

and I remember from another UK thread that 'consultants' are doctors correct? and are they specialists? I can't remember that part

aside from that, multiples a month is frightening and I wonder if it's increased in other countries too

 

[Interested_But_Confused]

and I remember from another UK thread that 'consultants' are doctors correct? and are they specialists? I can't remember that part

aside from that, multiples a month is frightening and I wonder if it's increased in other countries too

Yes, in the UK a "consultant" is a senior doctor (senior meaning their importance, not necessarily their age) who often--but not always--specialises in one area.