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Vicious gang jailed for a combined 60 years for 'ferocious' acid attack
Seven members of a gang who launched an acid attack on innocent members of the public have been put behind bars for a combined 60 years.
The gang of nine launched a “ferocious attack” near a night club, leaving one victim with a fractured eye socket and burns to his eyes.
The gang, who claimed they “run Hackney”, were all sentenced at Wood Green Crown Court on Thursday – with seven given jail terms.
The men were sitting in their cars on a crescent in the north east London borough at 5.15am one morning in May last year. when group member Onur Ardic, 27, started arguing with a passer by.
The victim, who has never been traced, was quickly surrounded by the group and punched by Mustafa Kiziltan, 30.
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A group of people who had left a nearby club tried to intervene and stop the attack while one of their friends filmed it but the gang then turned on him, kicking him to the ground and trying to steal his phone.
A brawl erupted and gang member Huseyin Onel, 24, returned to one of the cars, coming back with a white bottle he used to spray acid in the victims’ faces, targeting them calmly as they tried to flee.
DC David Leitner, from the Metropolitan Police, led the investigation that saw all nine gang members identified, arrested and charged over a four-month period.
He said: “Seven violent and dangerous men have been removed from London’s streets today and will now spend a lengthy time locked up in prison.
“The level of violence used in this attack, coupled with the speed that this incident escalated, are truly shocking.
“A group of people who were enjoying themselves at the end of a night out were subjected to a sustained and relentless wave of violence including the use of a corrosive substance – because they acted as good Samaritans to help a male being subjected to a vicious assault.
“The original victim who was attacked by the group has never been traced but I hope he, and all those who were set upon by this violent group of individuals, will take some comfort from the fact that this group has been convicted.”
The man who had been filming the assault was left with a fractured eye socket and corrosive burns to his eyes after his bag was ripped from him – with his phone inside.
Doctors described his recovery as “miraculous” after it was initially thought his injuries would be life changing.
The gang members then got into the three cars and fled the scene, shouting homophobic comments at the group and that they ‘run Hackney.’
Onel, from Hackney, was jailed for 17 years for applying a noxious substance causing grievous bodily harm – with three years on extended licence. He was sentenced to nine years each for six counts of casting a noxious substance and three years for violent disorder to run concurrently.
Ardic, from Hackney, was sentenced to 14 years in prison while Tekagac, also from Hackney, was jailed for 14-and-a-half years – both for applying a noxious substance causing GBH plus three years on extended licence. They were also each sentenced to three years for violent disorder to run concurrently.
Guven Ulas, 20, from Barnsbury in north London, was handed a 30-month prison sentence for violent disorder.
Mustafa Kiziltan, 30, from Hackney, was sentenced to a total of three years in prison – 27 months for violent disorder and nine months for dangerous driving. He was also sentenced to three months for failing to stop, which will run concurrently.
Serkan Kiziltan, 22, from Hackney, was sentenced to 18 months for violent disorder.
Umit Kaygisiz, 21, from Hoxton in north east London, was sentenced to a total of 28 months in prison for violent disorder and attempting to convey a mobile phone into prison.
Yasam Erdogan, 24, from Canonbury in north London, and Turgut Adakan, 23, from East Ham in east London, were each sentenced to 18 months for violent disorder, suspended for two years.
