I was savagely disfigured by my deranged boyfriend: Acid attack victim bravely shows her face

Daily Mail ^ | Oct. 19, 2009 | Nicky Murfitt

[ruination]

With painful honesty, Katie Piper, the former TV presenter tells why she has finally waived her right to anonymity – and reveals the awful events that changed her life for ever

However much she would like to forget them, the details of how she lost her dreams, her identity and very nearly her life will stay with Katie Piper for ever.

They are burned into both her memory and her face. Katie, 26, has remained fearful and anonymous in the 18 months since the man she met on the internet attempted to destroy her, so few will recognise her name.

But the facts of the case – the rape, the vengeful boyfriend Daniel Lynch, the cup of industrial-strength sulphuric acid – are all too familiar, a cause of anger and revulsion when they were revealed in court earlier this year.

It was an added cruelty that Katie’s world had revolved around her beauty. She modelled for catalogues and magazines, presented television programmes and had dreamed of a full-time career in the media.

But on March 31, 2008, the old Katie Piper disappeared for ever. The acid, hurled into her face on a busy London street, disfigured her beyond recognition. Some slipped down her throat with further terrible consequences.

[diverteach]

[TChris]

Photo:

[mnehring]

[TChris]

D'oh!

You beat me... :-/

[FormerACLUmember]

Daniel Lynch.

Me.

Room.

Alone.

15 minutes.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

She’s the victim here. Don’t forget that.

[ScottinVA]

I want to have a go at him too. I’ll be happy with 5.

[netmilsmom]

Um, that wasn’t nice.

[Krodg]

Are you posting that garbage so you can run out and show how horrible FR is?

[wolfcreek]

Horrible what happen to her yet she was obviously no stranger to cosmetic surgery.

[tet68]

Oh, that poor girl, she’s lucky to have eyes.
Still has an inner beauty though.

I’d pour acid on that guy but it wouldn’t
be on his face.

Live without that, punk!

[DTogo]

After he brutally raped and beat her one night over several hours:

If her brief affair with Lynch was a dreadful mistake, Katie’s next decision, too, might seem open to question. She decided not to go to the police, gripped by the fear that he would kill her if she put one foot wrong. Nor did she tell the truth to the doctors at the Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead, where her head wound was glued.

WTF?

[Blogatron]

Speaking of dogs,

the perp.

[wiggen]

really,thats what you see an think of in this story about how brutal and savage people can be to one another?

[John.Galt2012]

Accused attacker / boyfriend

[wiggen]

yeah. thats the story we’ll take out of this. cosmetic surgury leads to acid attacks. just brilllant.

[tet68]

Ya know, she was YOUNG, those could have been natural.
Why pick on her like that?
Cruel and rude, some atributes you have there.