{"id":6966,"date":"2017-08-15T11:03:41","date_gmt":"2017-08-15T10:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=6966"},"modified":"2017-08-15T11:03:41","modified_gmt":"2017-08-15T10:03:41","slug":"london-moped-acid-attacks-teenager-in-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/london-moped-acid-attacks-teenager-in-court\/","title":{"rendered":"London moped acid attacks: Teenager in court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6967\" src=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Acid.jpg\" alt=\"Acid\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" \/>A 16-year-old boy has appeared in court accused of carrying out a string of acid attacks on moped riders in north-east London.<br \/>\nThe teenager has been charged with 13 offences, six under a Victorian law.<br \/>\nHe allegedly targeted six men on bikes in less than 90 minutes on 13 July, spraying them in the face with a noxious liquid.<br \/>\nThe boy appeared at Wood Green Crown Court by videolink from Feltham Young Offenders Institution.<br \/>\nOne victim was left with &#8220;life-changing injuries&#8221;.<br \/>\nThe defendant, from Croydon, south London, is further accused of a separate moped robbery on 25 June.<br \/>\nHe was charged with 13 offences in all, including six counts of throwing a corrosive liquid with intent to &#8220;disable, injure, disfigure, maim, or cause grievous bodily harm&#8221; under Section 29 of the Offences Against The Person Act 1861.<br \/>\nThe offence carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.<br \/>\nHe was also charged with two counts of robbery and four counts of attempted robbery.<br \/>\nJudge Noel Lucas QC adjourned the case until Thursday. <em>-BBC<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/london-moped-acid-attacks-teenager-in-court\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 16-year-old boy has appeared in court accused of carrying out a string of acid attacks on moped riders in north-east London. The teenager has been charged with 13 offences, six under a Victorian law. He allegedly targeted six men on bikes in less than 90 minutes on 13 July, spraying them in the face &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6967,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,9],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6966"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6968,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6966\/revisions\/6968"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}