After mistakenly thinking he was having an affair, a jealous woman attacked her boyfriend while he lay awake with acid.
Esther Afrifa (28), has been in prison for 14 years. She purchased a litre from the Internet, and kept it at her bedside, ready to kill Kelvin Pogo, 29.
After the first attack, Afrifa went to extraordinary lengths to stop Mr Pogo getting medical treatment, leaving him with lifechanging injuries that have left him plagued by suicidal thoughts.
Mr Pogo told the Standard: ‘Every day I wake up is like the day she attacked me. It seems like the time has stopped.
“Everytime there’s a knock on the door, I fear someone will hurt me. My world was once hers, but she used to do this to me. “I just don’t get it.
Kelvin Pogo was 29 years old, and his girlfriend diduse him with acid because he thought she was having an affair.
Afrifa took extraordinary measures to prevent Mr Pogo from receiving medical attention, which left him with serious injuries and has caused him to think about suicide.
Afrifa applied acid to Mr Pogo’s chest on the 22nd of December 2019, at 3:30am. It quickly burned his shirt, according to a Harrow Crown Court trial.
He didn’t realize his girlfriend was the culprit at first and asked his girlfriend for help.
She pretended she was calling 999 and blocked his friends from calling.
Afrifa attacked again as Mr Pogo lay on the couch with his already severe wounds.
A passer-by stranger helped him to get medical attention after he ran screaming from his flat.
Afrifa mistakenly believed that her boyfriend was with a university classmate. However, she said she tried to make him drink acid from a Nike sport bottle. But he wasn’t saved because he distrusted tap water.
Pogo moved to Britain in order to study film. He was suffering from mental trauma, permanent eye and head damage, and was left permanently blind.
Judge Charles Bourne, QC sentenced Afrifa for 14 years imprisonment. He called it “a wicked thing to have done”.
Afrifa was found loitering near an alleyway and taken into custody. Later, she was charged and took into custody.
The investigating officer Detective Constable Tom Dawood stated that the victim sustained horrific injuries from Afrifa. He has been in hospital for months since then.
‘I’d like to commend London Ambulance Service colleagues and London Fire Brigade, who quickly attended the scene and rendered vital first aid which undoubtedly decreased the severity of his injuries.
“It is a great relief that Afrifa, for her horrendous crime, has been brought to justice and she will be serving a serious custodial sentence.”
He was seen before the attack. Mr Pogo moved to Britain in order to study film. Before the attack, he is visible
After her release, she is most likely to be sent to Ghana.
UK is home to one of the highest acid attack rates per capita in the entire world.
A Cardiff victim of an acid attack was seen splashing milk onto their wounds last September.
Witnesses said that he went to the grocery store and noticed a man in milk, trying to neutralize the acid.
“He said that when I entered Tesco, a man came racing towards me, topless and covered in milk. He claimed that acid had been thrown at him.
“All of the Tesco staff were cleaning up the milk. It was crazy.
Claudia Webbe, a former Labour MP was released from jail two weeks after she threatened to kill her former girlfriend with acid.
Paul Goldspring of Westminster Magistrates Court described the behavior of the 56-year old as “callous and intimidating” and stated that she showed little remorse and contrition.
A 10-week sentence in prison was handed to her, along with 200 hours of community work.