3 punished 44 years in prison for Upton acid attack

crime reporter,east London(wp/es)::: Three men have been jailed after being found guilty of an acid plot which left a mother suffering horrendous burns to her face and body. Yannick Ntesa, 25, Abdul Motin, 28, and Ahad Miah, 31, have been sentenced to a total of 44 years in prison for the attack in March 2011. The victim, who does not wish to be named, was walking home from Upton Cross Primary School with her six-year-old twin sons when she saw a man approach her “with something in a bottle”. She told her local paper: “I saw a man approach me who was carrying something in a bottle. “He threw it over me and after a few seconds it started burning. I was crying: ‘Please help me! Please help me! Everyone was shocked.” Her attacker, who had been driven to the scene with the other two men, poured acid over her head burning her face, scalp, chest and back. Witnesses on the busy street described seeing the man laugh as he carried out the attack. The desperate woman fled to a neighbour’s house where she was assisted by friends and police officers before being taken to the Royal London Hospital and later transferred to a specialist burns hospital in Essex. She suffered 16 per cent full depth chemical burns for which she still receives treatment and describes living every day in discomfort. Following a six week trial at Blackfriars Crown Court, a jury found all three defendants guilty of conspiracy to cause grevious bodily harm and throwing corrosive fluid on another with intent to cause grevious bodily harm. Ntsea and Miah have been jailed for 14 years and Motin for 16 years. Detective Inspector John Reynolds, of Newham CID, said: “This was a truly shocking attack on a mother who had her two very young children with her at the time. It was only by chance that those children were not seriously injured. They did however suffer terrible shock from seeing their own mother so horrifically assaulted. “The victim in this case is entirely innocent but will now spend the rest of her life having to adjust to the severe disfigurement inflicted on her.” In April a 28-year-old woman, named as Tara, answered the door of her home in Romford, east London, to a stranger who returned half an hour after she told him she could not help him and squirted acid in her face. Another woman, Naomi Oni, 21, had acid thrown in her face after getting off a bus in Lodge Avenue, Dagenham, in the early hours of December 30 last year.