Cops suspect woman who alleged acid attack did it herself

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This was in the news a couple of weeks back.

The woman, Naomi Oni, alleged that she was followed for hours by a woman in a black niqab, who then threw acid all over her late at night. Now there is a suggestion that she may have attacked herself deliberately - for attention, possibly? Who knows? However, presumably the police have checked CCTV (as they always would have done in a case like this) and found no mysterious figure dressed from head to toe in black following her.

I find it all very weird anyway - why would someone randomly subject someone to an acid attack? What grudge would that figure have against someone they'd never met? I know that acid as a means of attack is not uncommon in Islamic countries, but I can't understand the motive. The main reason I came up with at the time was due to the murderous Muslim/Christian sectarianism that takes place in Nigeria. Miss Oni is a former resident of Nigeria, I believe.

If it's not that, why the hell would someone deliberately choose to attack themselves with acid like that? It's probably one of the most horrifically painful and savage ways to cause yourself harm imaginable. Did she do it for attention? Love? What?

Hopefully the police will now get to the bottom of it and work out why the hell whatever happened, happened. It does sound very worrying though either way.

If she did do it to herself, she's obviously a very sick and mentally ill woman. I hope that, if it turns out that she has harmed herself (or had someone harm her at her request) no-one else - i.e. other women - have suffered in questioning due to being arrested in relation to this case.

What do you want me to get from this? This is currently just a Daily Mail rumor piece, which any knowledgeable person would know this is not news at all.

My point is that why would the police seize her laptop if she was not under suspicion of some kind?

It seem one hell of a coincidence if she did look at that.

I think people do not just throw acid on themselves, they usually have history of self-harm, or some pathology where the fixation is stronger then the thought of the consequences.

Not really - the Katie Piper case was very well known. She's been on TV numerous times to talk about her ordeal and getting her life back.



One wonders what the root cause of it is. It's a genuinely mystifying case all around. I remember when the initial case broke, reading a comment by a person local to the area (who is not keen on Islam's increasing presence in the UK) and she strongly doubted that a Muslim was responsible for the attack given the makeup of the entire area where she claimed she was harmed. Going by her comments, I got the impression that anyone actually wearing a black Islamic shroud in that area would be very out of place.

it might be related to domestic abuse, because of Katie Piper

Are you saying that it's another Piperesque situation then? If so, I understand what you're getting at.

I meant it odd that she would look that up on the internet then have it done to her. Like bad luck or what?

No I'm she maybe has an abusive relationship with her boyfriend and identified with Piper, or perhaps she was just fixated on the case.

Well crap I will keep in mind if I look up anything disturbing, and it happens to me that must mean I did it to myself upon reading about it I don't know I think there are a lot of easier, more effective less painful ways of 'getting attention.' so even if she did do it to herself I would think there was a bit more going on like severe mental illness, maybe an attempt at self harm though an extreme one. Seriously though if the only evidence they have is that she looked up a simular incident beforehand I don't see how they'd even have a case against her.


It is second hand information though, no one knows all the facts or even 1/4 of them when it comes to news stories, you get what the reporters tell you or what gets approved to be printed/aired on t.v.

I can see both sides of the argument.

It is just very unlucky for that to happen.

Bare in mind there is another person who is the attacker in her version of events. That person, is just as important as the woman. It is important that justice is done.

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Exactly. If the investigations do show that she was indeed attacked, the person that did it must be found and brought to justice, absolutely no question there - whoever did it.

If it wasn't anyone else and it was self-inflicted, I think the woman in question needs some serious help.

Sounds similar to story from a couple years ago out of Vancouver, Bethany Storro. Said she was attacked by a black woman with acid and it later turned out she was mentally ill.

Well, if they're anything like our blokes over here, they may be looking for an easy answer to an impossible-to-prove case.

"Here now, mate; let's just say she's gone off her trolly, blame her for doing it to herself, claim that her mental state keeps her in denial of that fact, send her off to the Barmy Bin, and Bob's yer uncle, we're done before tea!"

Her reading about Katie Piper doesn't seem suspicious at all. Piper is very famous here and has made a lot of TV programmes about her attack, the surgery to rebuild her face and her current work in helping others with disfigurements. And she has written several books (I'm reading one now). So probably many people have heard of her and read about her.

It seems irresponsible and not beneficial for the media to be reporting that the police are investigating that Oni self-inflicted this. The police have to check out all possibilities. It's possible they had suspicions and decided to investigate this route, but also possible they could discover tomorrow they were wrong and some other evidence come up, so I don't see what is to be gained from printing this right now with nothing confirmed.

It seemed odd to me right from the start that she was attacked randomly by an unknown muslim woman, aren't attacks where a woman's face is disfigured usually carried out by a current or ex partner so that no-one else will want her - as happened to Katie Piper herself? Then again the person wearing a niqab to hide their identity may not have been female or even muslim, but use of a niqab would send police down the road of searching for this non-existent female niqabi muslim.

I can't work out what the motive would be for either Oni to do it to herself or for some stranger to attack her at random. Who would gain what from either course of events?