Lawyer's daughter, 18, gets jail for 'horrendous' acid attack on her school orchestra love rival
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This is the barrister’s daughter who attacked her school orchestra love rival with acid after she started dating her ex-boyfriend.
Jealous Emily Bowen, 18, poured drain cleaner into fellow pupil Molly Young’s viola case in a revenge attack that has left the victim scarred for life.
A Scottish court has heard that following the attack Bowen wrote a fake letter demanding she commit suicide – and pretended the note came from her victim.
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The calculating letter was written six weeks after the attack.
Talented musician Molly, also 18, suffered horrific burns to her legs when she lifted her instrument from a shelf and the liquid, which was 91 per cent sulphuric acid, splashed over her.
She was left “screaming in pain” at Knox Academy in East Lothian, Scotland.
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Edinburgh Sheriff Court heard Bowen looked up acid attacks online after discovering Molly was dating her ex-boyfriend.
Caging her for 21 months, Sheriff Michael O’Grady QC described her crime as “utterly wicked."