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Updated Sunday, February 4, 2024-14:52

  • United Kingdom The suspect in the acid attack on a woman and daughters in London has a previous conviction for a sexual crime

The London Metropolitan Police (Met) offered this Sunday a reward of

20,000 pounds (23,290 euros)

for information on the whereabouts of Abdul Ezedi, whom it accuses of an

acid attack

last Wednesday against a woman and her two daughters.

Commander Jon Savell of the Met warned in a statement that

"anyone helping Ezedi evade capture

- whether harboring or assisting him - will be arrested."

Scotland Yard revealed that the 35-year-old suspect

was last seen

on Wednesday at 21:33 GMT leaving London's Tower Hill tube station, a couple of hours after carrying out the attack in the Clapham neighborhood. , in south London.

Previously, the Police had

released other images in a supermarket

and a tube station in north London that showed him with a serious injury to his right eye and cheek.

Savell reported this Sunday that the analyzes of the compound used in the attack against the 31-year-old woman and her daughters, aged 8 and 3, known to the alleged perpetrator, indicate that it is "a

very strong concentrated corrosive substance,

which may be sodium hydroxide." liquid or liquid sodium carbonate".

The agents are now comparing whether it is the same as that corresponding to

empty containers found at Ezedi's home

in Newcastle (northeast England), while they have also carried out other searches in London.

The Met, as well as a refugee aid organization assisting Ezedi - supposedly from Afghanistan, who gained asylum in the Kingdom in 2021 or 2022 - appealed

for him to surrender voluntarily

.

The older victim

remains sedated in a London hospital

with injuries that could leave serious consequences, while those of the girls are less serious than thought, according to the Police.