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- Dr. Rym Alaoui suffered life-changing injuries, will undergo months of reconstructive treatment
- Neighbor: ‘It was a horrendous attack. By all accounts, she’s quite badly injured’
LONDON: A medical student in the UK has admitted launching an acid attack on a trainee doctor, and will be sentenced on Oct. 7.
Dr. Rym Alaoui suffered life-changing injuries after sulphuric acid was thrown at her face at her home in the English city of Brighton.
At a court in the town of Lewes on Monday, Milad Rouf, 25, pleaded guilty to grievous bodily harm with intent, and to using sulphuric acid with intent to burn, maim, disfigure or disable.
Rouf trained with Alaoui at Cardiff University, where she was president of the Anaesthetics Society.
He was told by Judge Christine Laing QC that the “extreme nature of this offense” meant she had to “consider all options.” Laing added: “I also have to consider the question of dangerousness.”
On the day of the attack, Alaoui, who was not working, answered the door of her shared house in Brighton when a figure in a mask and sunglasses threw acid at her face.
She was rushed to the local hospital, where she was treated by her colleagues, who were said to be “emotional” when dealing with her injuries. Alaoui will reportedly undergo months of reconstructive treatment to her face and chest.
One of her neighbors said: “It was a horrendous attack, and there was a real commotion with police and ambulance. By all accounts, she’s quite badly injured. I just hope she’s going to be OK.”