Dagenham Acid Attack: Woman Charged

A woman has been charged over an acid attack in east London that left another woman with serious injuries to her face.

Naomi Oni, 21, reported being attacked in Dagenham east London on December 30 as she returned home from work at a shopping centre in Stratford.

She said she had suffered burns and lost her hair and eyelashes after the chemical was thrown at her.

Mary Konye, 21, from Canning Town, also in east London, has been charged with throwing or casting a corrosive fluid with intent to burn, maim, disfigure, disable or do grievous bodily harm.

Crown Prosecution Service's Damaris Lakin said: "I concluded that there is sufficient evidence for a realistic prospect of conviction and that itis in the public interest to charge Ms Konye."

Konye will appear before Barkingside Magistrates Court in Ilford, Essex on Wednesday.

Ms Oni, who was on the phone to her boyfriend at the time of the attack, said after the attack that she "couldn't understand why someone would want to hurt me like that."