OUTRAGEOUS! Mistaken identity acid attack victim Andreas Christopheros calls for tougher sentences - as his attacker David Phillips gets his sentence quashed to a mere SEVEN YEARS!

Acid attack victim calls for tougher sentences
        

IBTimes UK

 

Published on 4 Aug 2017

Acid attacks in England have doubled over the past five years, with 503 attacks recorded so far in 2017. In the last 12 months, police have recorded 446 attacks in London alone

 

Acid Attack: A Survivor's Story
         

UNILAD

 

        

Published on 30 Jul 2017

This is the horrifying story of a man whose life was changed by an unprovoked acid attack.     

 

ACID ATTACKS ARE ESCALATING IN LONDON
        

Tim Pool

     
'I FELT MY FACE MELTING'

What happened to Andreas Christopheros? Acid attack victim featured on Judge Rinder’s Crime Stories – all you need to know

Brave Andreas is reliving his ordeal on Judge Rinder's Crime Stories tonight, so here is all you need to know about the property developer

By Guy Birchall  

24th March 2017, 12:01 pm Updated: 24th March 2017, 12:03 pm  

 

     ANDREAS Christopheros’ life changed forever in 2014 when thug flung acid in his face in a harrowing case of mistaken identity.The dad of one’s face melted in the brutal attack which left him in a coma for four days.

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  Andreas Christopheros from Truro, Cornwall, who was was left scarred for life after a man hurled acid in his face

Brave Andreas is reliving his ordeal on Judge Rinder’s Crime Stories tonight, so here is all you need to know about the property developer.

Who is Andreas Christopheros?

Andreas Christopheros is a husband and father of one from Truro, Cornwall.
At the time of the attack he worked fr his family’s property and events business and was one of the founders of the  Run to the Sun car and music festival which was held in Newquay.
But his life would never be the same again following the fateful events of December 9 2014.

What happened to him?

Andreas answered the door on the morning of December 9 2014 and to find David Phillips standing on his doorstep.
Phillips, a painter and decorator from East Sussex, had driven 300 miles for the sole purpose of flinging acid into a man’s face.
The thug wrongly believed a man who had sexually assaulted a member of  his family lived at Andreas’ address and drove from East Anglia to the West Country to exact his revenge.
When he answered the door Phillips, who was clutching a beaker of battery acid, chucked it in his victim’s face telling him simply: “That’s for you mate.”

Reliving the incident Andreas told This Morning last year he didn’t have time to blink before the corrosive fluid was flung at him.
He told Holly and Phil:  “The pain was inexplicable. It’s nothing like I have ever felt.
“You can’t even comprehend but I knew straight away that it was acid.

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   Last year he appeared on This Morning to tell Holly and Phil how his life was changed forever

“My T-shirt dissolved. It was like a waistcoat. There was no doubt in my mind.”

He screamed out to his wife Pia, who was upstairs with their baby, and “ran to the kitchen and started dousing myself with as much water as I could because that was the only thing I knew to do”.

Pia, whose socks disintegrated as she ran on the acid-soaked carpet to call999, described her husband’s screams as “haunting”.
Andreas fell into a coma for four days after arriving at hospital, but says the last thing he remembers is giving as much information to ambulance workers as he possibly could to help police catch his attacker, including details of a suspicious red van parked outside his house before the assault.

After being admitted to hospital, the brave dad was eventually flown to a specialist burns unit in Swansea, but days after his devastated mum and wife were told he probably wouldn’t make it through the night after the attack.
It was two months before Andreas let his young son, who was also admitted to hospital due to the strong fumes, see him because of his injuries.

He said: “Luckily, he’s amazing. My wife Pia brought him down and he looked at me and nestled into Pia’s neck. Then about two minutes later he just stuck his arms out for me and clung on to me and wouldn’t let go.
“It was the best feeling in the world. Without him I don’t know where I would be now. He’s just absolutely incredible.”

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  Andreas before the attack with his little boy Theo

What happened to his attacker?

David Phillips was caged for life his vile act.
Andreas said the thug attempted to apologise, telling him in court he was sorry as he entered his guilty plea.
But the apology fell on deaf ears, with Andreas saying: “He was very uncooperative with the police and only pleaded guilty at the eleventh hour when I was in the witness room to give evidence.
“We walked past and he gestured to his heart and said ‘I’m sorry’.
“To be honest it fell on deaf ears, we just walked straight past. It didn’t make any difference.”

source:  https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3168241/andreas-christopheros-acid-attack-judge-rinders-crime-stories/

Acid attacker who did THIS to innocent man has life sentence QUASHED

 By JLewis_Herald     |  Posted: April 20, 2016

Andreas Christopheros recovers in hospital following the attack

A dad who left an innocent man scarred for life after driving 300 miles to carry out a botched revenge attack had his life sentence overturned by top judges today.
David Phillips, 49, threw sulphuric acid in the face of former Plymouth University student, Andreas Christopheros, after knocking on the front door of his home in Carrine Road, Truro.

Phillips, of Barley Road, Hastings, targeted Mr Christopheros in a "horrific case of mistaken identity", London's Appeal Court heard.

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David Phillips

He had wanted to exact revenge for an attack carried out on someone he was close to while holidaying in Cornwall the previous summer.
The obsessed father-of-three spent months planning his vengeance, finally driving down to Truro in December 2014 armed with a bottle of acid.

However, the court heard he was acting on totally false information as property developer Mr Christopheros was entirely innocent.
"He was not the man who had carried out the attack," said Mr Justice Wyn Williams.
But Phillips' victim was left disfigured and partially blinded after he hurled acid in his eyes as he opened the door.

"This is for you", he told Mr Christopheros before leaving him howling in pain on his own doorstep.

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Andreas Christopheros and his wife Pia

 

Mr Christopheros' wife was also scalded as she strove to help her husband, and his 18-month-old son was inside the house during the attack.
Phillips was caged for life at Truro Crown Court in October 2015 after he admitted wounding with intent.

But his case reached the Appeal Court today as he successfully challenged his punishment.
Mr Justice Wyn Williams, sitting with Lady Justice Rafferty, noted the remorse expressed by Phillips, but also the devastating impact of his crime.

In a moving victim impact statement Mr Christopheros revealed his life is now "surrounded by pain, overwhelming sadness and uncertainty".
"I feel as if control of my life has been taken from me", he said.

Mr Justice Wyn Williams, sitting with Lady Justice Rafferty and Judge Peter Collier QC, said he understood the "dreadful nature of the offence".

He told the court: "We acknowledge that this crime involved a great deal of planning and a great deal of determination to carry through.

"The consequences for the victim were intended to be permanent and catastrophic."

But he ruled that Phillips had wrongly been condemned as a highly dangerous man from whom the public would need future protection.

In fact the evidence suggested the threat he posed was limited to the "very particular" facts of this offence.
"We are therefore forced to conclude that this life sentence was not justified and must be quashed," the judge ruled.

The court substituted a standard, 16-year, prison sentence, of which Phillips will serve half befor qualifying for automatic release.

Lady Justice Rafferty ended the hearing by thanking Mr Christopheros, who sat at the back of the court, for attending the appeal.
"We are very sorry to see you in such sad circumstances," she told him.

source: http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/acid-attacker-did-innocent-man-life-sentence/story-29147054-detail/story.html#ebTAovkhm47g24D8.99
 

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David Phillips jailed for life for "revenge" acid attack that blinded innocent Truro businessman
 http://www.cornwalllive.com/david-phillips-jailed-life-revenge-acid-attack/story-27953936-detail/story.html#BVBIES0U6jpOGc6J.99

Man jailed after carrying out horrific acid attack http://www.itv.com/news/meridian/update/2015-10-09/man-jailed-after-carrying-out-horrific-acid-attack/