Nurse dies after being caught in acid attack crossfire
A NURSE died after being soaked with sulphuric acid when she unwittingly got caught up in a row, a court heard.
Joanne Rand, 47, was sitting on a bench after visiting her daughter’s grave in Frogmoor, High Wycombe, Bucks, last June. Suddenly, a few feet away, an opened bottle of the acid was knocked from the hand of Xeneral Webster, 19, who was having a row over drugs with two other male teenagers. The acid spilt on to Ms Rand’s arm, feet and hair, Reading Crown Court heard. She was treated in hospital for her burns, but died of sepsis 11 days after being discharged.
Mr Webster, of west London, denies murder and an alternative count of manslaughter. The trial continues.