A man is still on the run after an attack in south London where a woman and her two children were doused with a corrosive substance.
Metropolitan Police Commander Jon Savell has given details about the suspect’s (Abdul Ezedi) movements before and after the attack on January 31. Here is what we know.
Before the attack
Abdul Ezedi, 35, left Newcastle in the “very, very early hours” of Wednesday and travelled south to London.
By around 6.30am, he was in the Tooting area. At 4.30pm, his car was seen in Croydon and at 7pm, Ezedi was in Streatham.
The attack
Metropolitan Police were called at 7.25pm about a suspected chemical attack.
Officers were sent to Lessar Avenue in Clapham, where a woman, 31, and her two children, three and eight, had been doused with alkaline, a corrosive substance, while in a car.
The attack is believed to have left them with life-changing injuries. They remain in hospital in a stable condition.
Six others – three members of the public and three police officers – were also injured while trying to help. Five were taken to hospital.
A man was seen fleeing the scene according to Det Supt Alexander Castle. Ezedi’s car is found crashed nearby.
After the attack
At 7.33pm, Ezedi boarded a tube at Clapham South underground station and by 8pm he was at King’s Cross tube station.
He was captured on CCTV in Tesco on the Caledonian Road at 8.45pm, pictured with a “fairly significant facial injury”.
Police Commander Jon Savell said there had been a “great response” from the public so far and, as a result, officers had established Ezedi got on a Victoria line tube at 9pm heading south.
The force will publish more CCTV shortly, Savell added, but Ezedi has been urged to “do the right thing and hand yourself in”.
