How One Shot blinded victim in a vicious revenge ambush
ONE Shot drain cleaner was the weapon of choice in two sickening acid attacks that ended up in court.
Brothers Billy and Geoffrey Midmore threw the corrosive fluid at victim Carla Whitlock in front of her helpless boyfriend in Southampton in 2015 after a botched drug deal that had left them £2000 out of pocket.
Before the attack, which left Carla scarred and blind in one eye, Geoffrey had sent a picture of the bottle to an acquaintance on WhatsApp with the words: “This is one face melter.”
Less than an hour after they struck, the brothers were caught on a train’s CCTV laughing “jubilantly” and giving each other high fives and fist bumps, a jury heard.
Midmore got 15 years in jail and his brother got nine years for his part. High-flying student Emily Bowen, 18, poured One Shot into a viola case owned by former schoolmate Molly Young, then 17. As the talented musician took her instrument from a shelf in 2016, the drain cleaner dripped all down her body, badly burning her legs. Bowen had been accepted to study law at Aberdeen University and had hoped to follow her high-flying lawyer father Andrew Bowen QC into the legal profession. She had targeted Molly with the 91 per cent sulphuric acid solution after they fell out over a boy. She was jailed for 21 months but released from prison at the start of this year after serving just a quarter of her sentence.