I’ve stopped hating the person that threw acid in my face - Naomi Oni

Naomi Oni

Speaking exclusively to The Sun (UK), the Victoria’s Secret shop assistant from Dagenham, east London, said: “This could have happened to anyone and I just want this person to come forward. How can they sleep at night knowing they have done this?

“I have stopped hating them. I just feel sorry for them and I wonder what’s going on in their life to want to make someone else suffer like that. “But I would like to see them caught, for everybody’s sake.”  Naomi, who is sole carer to visually impaired mum Marian, 52, added: “The doctors had told my mum I might never see again, which was hard for her, because she relies on me being able to see for her. My sight began to come back gradually so I was lucky. Even so, I kept waking up and thinking it was all a dream.”

A fortnight into her hospital stay, Naomi had an operation to remove the damaged tissue from her face and head and was given an allograft — in which doctors use a synthetic skin to cover wounds.
She then had another op to graft skin from her right thigh on her face, forehead and left thigh. The graft has pulled down her right eyelid, meaning she cannot close her eye properly.
Medics have told her she will have to wear a plastic mask in future to help her skin heal. She joked: “When I first saw it I thought, ‘This is awkward, my thigh is on my face’.”
Naomi, who was discharged on January 25, spent three nights staying in a bed and breakfast with mum Marian because they were too afraid to go back to their council house.