{"id":7044,"date":"2014-11-25T15:31:35","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T15:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2014\/11\/25\/acid-attack-trial\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T14:12:47","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T14:12:47","slug":"acid-attack-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2014\/11\/25\/acid-attack-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Acid Attack Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>The victim of an ex-lover\u2019s acid attack speaks out in court<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"1\" align=\"middle\" width=\"467\" vspace=\"10\" hspace=\"3\" height=\"184\" src=\"http:\/\/theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Horsman-467x184.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nTividale local Vikki Horsman gives her testimony in court over a vicious acid attack she previously endured. Horsman, aged 20, recalls how she \u201cpeeked around the corner of the porch door\u201d to see a hooded man wearing a bandana across his face who then threw acid at her.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nThree men are now on trial over the attack in Wolverhampton Crown Court.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0Horsman described how she was left \u201cscreaming\u201d after the incident at a house in MacDonald Close, Tividale. In pain she immediately ran to wash her blistering face and neck with cold water.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nShe described her relationship with accused 80-year-old Mohammed Rafiq with whom she had been sleeping with since the age of 18. Having known him for six years Rafiq began to grow very controlling and constantly accused her of cheating. Horsman was also put under pressure to convert to Islam and change her name to Aleena Rafiq.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nProsecutor Anthony Warner asked if she had converted willingly and Horsman replied, \u201cnot particularly\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nThe accusations of cheating continued and after Rafiq was caught looking through the victim\u2019s belongings, she chose to end the relationship.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nWarner asked how Rafiq took the news and she explained, \u201cHe got very angry. He still thought we were in a relationship even though I had ended things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nOn the night of the attack she and Rafiq were at a friend\u2019s house when there was a knock at the door, Rafiq told Horsman there was \u201ca man for you\u201d. After opening the door she saw the hooded assailant who simply said \u201cVikki\u201d and threw the substance on her.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nPresent during the proceedings, Rafiq has denied inflicting grievous bodily harm with intent to harm Horsman.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nAlso standing accused were 23-year-old Shannon Heaps and 25-year-old Steven Holmes, who is said to have carried out the acid attack on that day.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nThe trial continues.&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The victim of an ex-lover\u2019s acid attack speaks out in court &#13; Tividale local Vikki Horsman gives her testimony in court over a vicious acid attack she previously endured. Horsman, aged 20, recalls how she \u201cpeeked around the corner of the porch door\u201d to see a hooded man wearing a bandana across his face who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}