- Kirstie Trup and Katie Gee badly injured after two men threw acid at them
- Police officers tracking the men may ask girls to return to help investigation
- Detectives given hope after the teenagers said they can identify attackers
- Two friends back in the UK and will undergo skin grafts
Two teenage girls who were attacked
with battery acid in Zanzibar should return to the country to help with
the police investigation, detectives have said.
Kirstie Trup and Katie Gee were left badly injured after two men on a moped threw acid at them while they walked to dinner.
The two friends, who were volunteering on the Indian Ocean island of Zanzibar, are now back in the UK and will undergo skin grafts.
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Kirstie Trup and Katie Gee were left badly injured after two men on a moped threw acid at them while they walked to dinner.
The two friends, who were volunteering on the Indian Ocean island of Zanzibar, are now back in the UK and will undergo skin grafts.
Attack: Two men on a moped hurled acid in the
girls' faces as they walked to meet friends for dinner in Stone Town,
Zanzibar (seen in a file photo) |
Help: After they were attacked by the two men the girls ran to the Tembo Hotel, pictured
The family of Katie have said they want her to recover from her injuries before they consider returning to Zanzibar.
Speaking
to the Evening Standard, Doug Morris, boyfriend of Katie Gee’s mother
Nicky, 45, said: She is not in the condition to travel, and the
family’s primary concern is her recovery.'
Katie's mother Nicky told this week how she was struggling to come to terms with why someone could do ‘something so evil’.
Mrs
Gee told BBC News: ‘This whole thing is unexplained. It's difficult to
think of someone doing something so evil. This is an extremely long
journey. It's very, very sensitive.’
The
pair were attacked by two men on a moped in Zanzibar City. They were
flown to hospital in Dar es Salaam in mainland Tanzania, then on to
London.
Zanzibar’s police have said a third British woman was sent threats apparently from the same attackers. The unnamed 29-year-old insisted she would not stop her charity work on the island.
Members
of both teenagers' families have been keeping a bedside vigil after the
pair were flown home and immediately sent to London's regional burns
centre.
Katie has already
taken to Twitter to thank well-wishers for their support, while a
photograph released by the teenagers' families showed the injuries one
of them suffered in the attack.
The women were enjoying the last week
of a trip as volunteer teachers to the predominantly Muslim island when
the corrosive substance was thrown at them in an apparently unprovoked
attack.
They had originally
planned to return in time to collect their A-level results this week,
with Kirstie hoping to study history at the University of Bristol while
Katie is considering the University of Leeds.
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