21 year old acid victim Naomi Oni was
disfigured for life after an unknown person
wearing a Niqāb threw acid in her face as she
walked home from work on Sunday December
30th 2012 in Lodge Avenue Dagenham, east
London.




Naomi only described her attacker as a woman
wearing an Islamic veil. Over a year later,
police has been able to identify the person
behind the veil. It was her jealous 21 year old
friend, Mary Konye.




According to new reports released by police and
tendered in court, Mary, a student
at Hertfordshireuniversity, disguised herself in
a Niqāb, which showed only her eyes
and closely followed Naomi home and allegedly
poured the acid on her when they got to a
deserted area. She fled the scene immediately
after.
Naomi suffered horrific burns on her face and
chest and was left scarred for life. Continue...
Mary Konye, who has since been arrested and
facing trial, had been Naomi's friend since
secondary school. Mary had always been
jealous of Naomi, the court heard, and when
they fought Mary decided she wanted Naomi
disfigured for life and attacked her with acid.
Naomi Oni's lawyer said in court today:

'Naomi will tell you about her
friendship with the defendant. In
particular she will tell you how in
the past they had an up and down
relationship and how the defendant
had admitted to her that on one
occasion in anger she threatened to
throw acid at Naomi.

'There was a reason why the
defendant would have chosen to
make such an unusual sort of
threat. In the past the two of them
had discussed a young woman
called Katie Piper.

'She was a woman who had acid
thrown at her and that attack had
been reported in the media.

'Naomi and the defendant had
discussed this and it appears that
the defendant knew that Naomi had
been particularly moved by Katie
Piper’s ordeal.

'Naomi stated that she and the
defendant had fallen out in the past
and says that there was an occasion
during a row when she called the
defendant ugly.

'She says that they were later back
on speaking terms and importantly,
that the defendant said to her that
she (the defendant) had been so
angry at the time that she had said
to someone else, a friend of the
defendant’s called Kamilah
Andrews, that she (the defendant)
wanted to throw acid at Naomi.

'Naomi believed that the defendant
had realised just how upset she had
been by Katie Piper’s horrible
ordeal.'

'She could not see the face of the
person, just the light-brown
coloured skin around the eyes. She
believed it was a female. The
woman was staring at her.

'All of a sudden Naomi felt a liquid
being thrown into her face. She
screamed and immediately felt her
face burning. She could smell her
skin and hair burning. She
immediately ran home


Mary Konye denies pouring acid on Naomi. The
trial continues...