Why did the people want to hurt me?
Acid attack dad gets 16 years for gang’s attack on his son, 3 Terrified lad can’t understand reason for horror daylight assault
A FATHER has been jailed for organising a “monstrous” acid attack on his own three-yearold son in a busy shop.
The evil dad plotted the attack to “manufacture evidence” his estranged wife was a bad mum.
Yesterday, she told how her and her son are still scared and the boy doesn’t understand why “people want to hurt me”.
In a victim impact statement read in court, she said: “Before the incident, my son was a confident boy – however this has changed.
“Three days after the incident, we went out and three people walked towards him and he tried to run away.
“I managed to grab him and told him no one is going to hurt him. He said, ‘why did people want to hurt me?’ I’ll never forget his screams.”
She added: “The incident turned our life upside down, I am always thinking about how I can keep myself and my children safe.”
And she said after the dad is released from jail, she would be in greater danger than before.
She said: “He is the kind of person that honour matters everything to. They call it honour killing. I am scared and still in fear of their father.” Her husband was disputing custody and wanted to paint her in a bad light for allowing her son to be injured.
Prosecutors said he believed his wife had “humiliated” him by leaving him and taking their children two years earlier. Before the attack, he asked an Imam if he was allowed to “kill his wife and children in accordance with religion”.
The 40- year- old conspired with gang members from London and the West Midlands to carry out the attack in Worcester last July. His son suffered burns to his face and arm.
After the attack the dad, from Wolverhampton, sent a message to a member of the gang which read: “Nailed it!” But police discovered the motive and arrested the ex-taxi driver and co-conspirators.
Sentencing the dad, who cannot be named, to 16 years in jail at Worcester crown court yesterday, judge Robert Juckes said he was “plainly at the heart” of the attack.
He jailed the five other men for between 12 and 14 years. Dad who cannot be named by law