Acid attackers hit me at traffic lights
FooD delivery driver Jabed Hussain was heading home last month when he was the victim of an acid attack.
He was waiting at traffic lights in Hackney, East London, when two youths drew up beside him on a moped and flicked a corrosive liquid at his face.
Luckily the visor on his crash helmet was pulled down so he was saved from more serious injury.
But the liquid was so strong it burned through parts of it. Immediately after the assault, police took bottles of water from a nearby Co-op and doused him.
He still suffered burns to his face and lips and needed treatment at the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel. ‘I cannot believe what those two young men did to me,’ said Mr Hussain, 32. ‘I am just a working man and their actions terrified me.’
He says parts of north and east London are ‘ no- go’ zones with drivers refusing to deliver orders after 8pm because they are scared.