New photo issued of Clapham alkaline attack suspect as it emerges he is convicted sex offender
Detectives are hunting a suspect after a mother and her three-year-old daughter suffered burns in a chemical attack - as it emerged the man is understood to be a convicted sex offender who was later granted asylum.
An eight-year-old girl was also hurt after the family of three were doused with an alkaline substance in Clapham, south London, on Wednesday night, in a shocking attack that also injured passers-by and first responders.
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Witnesses have told how the mother, 31, screamed for help after the man – said to be known to the family – launched the substance and slammed the toddler to the ground “like a ragdoll” before
