First picture of schoolgirl jailed for acid attack

Emily Bowen wrote a letter to herself A TEENAGER who attacked a love rival with acid penned a letter to herself saying she should end her life... and signed it with her victim’s name.

Barrister’s daughter Emily Bowen, 18 – pictured for the first time yesterday – was jailed for 21 months after pouring drain cleaner into the viola case of love rival Molly Young.

Ms Young was scarred for life after the acid went on her legs as she pulled the instrument from a shelf.

Yesterday it emerged Bowen had also written a letter to herself that made out she was the victim.

She penned the letter six weeks after the horrific acid attack, which was condemned by a judge as “utterly wicked”.

The pair fell out after Ms Young started seeing Bowen’s ex-boyfriend.

Prosector Aidan Higgins described how, on November 10 last year, Bowen “prepared a letter which appeared to come from Molly Young” in which she said she should kill herself.

He said: “Subsequently, Bowen admitted it was she who was the author of the letter.”

A friend, who did not want to be identified, said: “Some folk had sympathy Father...Andrew Bowen QC

JAILED VICTIM

Molly Young has been scarred for life for her after the acid incident as they thought it was a spur of the moment thing, but after finding out about the letter they soon changed their minds.” Bowen, from Haddington, East Lothian, is the daughter of lawyer Andrew Bowen QC and a family friend admitted the teenager dreamed of following her father into law. The friend said: “Emily had been accepted to Aberdeen University to take a law degree. She is a very intelligent girl and she would have sailed through any degree she wanted to do. “She has always looked up to her father and I think it was a dream of hers to follow him in his profession.” Mr Bowen sat beside his daughter in the dock during a court hearing in June when she pleaded guilty to recklessly and culpably pouring sulphuric acid into Ms Young’s viola case. She was jailed on Monday. Sheriff Michael O’Grady QC described the attack as “utterly wicked” and told Bowen: “In the period leading up to these events you researched this topic. “You have left a woman to suffer a terrifying ordeal and she will be physically and mentally scarred for the rest of her life.”