Acid attack victim tells how strangers scarred him for life

Chris Bonney said police could only tell him only the people who did it were clearly paid to do the job. Photo / BBC

An acid attack victim has recalled the horrifying moment two men apologised to him on his doorstep before hurling corrosive fluid in his face and scarring him for life.

College lecturer Chris Bonney was attacked by two men at his home in Weymouth, Dorset, in February last year.

The young father told how the men said, "Are you Chris? We're ever so sorry," before launching the attack, which has left him with scars across his face and body, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and anxiety.

Police have never been able to find any motive or evidence after the unprovoked attack, the Daily Mail reports.

The acid melted the paint off Bonney's front door, burned through his radiators, and "destroyed everything it touched".

It hit the left side of his face, before covering his left arm and leaving him in excruciating pain, hospitalising him for three weeks.

Bonney told BBC2's Victoria Derbyshire show police could only tell him only "the people who did it were clearly paid to do this job".

He said he had never been involved in criminal activity and had "never seen" his attackers before.

He told the show he now cried himself to sleep, and said the attack had left him with impaired vision as his eyelid fused to his eyebrow, and made him susceptible to infections.

He also called for more to be done to prevent similar acid attacks.

He said: "There needs to be some sort of education that it's not acceptable to use it as a weapon.

"We educate how bad knife crime is, but substance attacks are becoming more frequent now."