Father Planned To Have Acid Poured On His 3-Year-Old Son Just To Prove His Wife Was An Unfit Mother

A father allegedly planned with six others to have acid poured on his
son just to show that his wife was an unfit mother for their son. This
came after he had consulted with an Imam on whether it was allowed in
Islam for him to kill his wife and children.

The 40-year-old father was involved in a protracted custody battle
with his estranged wife who has three kids with him, so he came up with
the devious plan so as to get custody of his children.

Worcester Crown Court heard the youngster, who cannot be identified
for legal reasons, suffered serious burns to his face and arm at the
Home Bargains store in the city on July 21 last year after he was
squirted in the face with sulphuric acid.

The father, whose identity is being hidden to protect his kids, has
been charged with conspiring to unlawfully or maliciously cast or throw
sulphuric acid on or at the boy between June 1 and July 22, with intent
to burn, maim, disfigure or disable the minor, or do some grievous
bodily harm to him.

It was not the first time the boy had been targeted – with an earlier
incident allegedly taking place on July 13 and involving Pulko, Hussini
and Badiova, the court heard.

Jonathan Rees QC, prosecuting said:

In April 2016 his wife had left him, taking their three children with her and, in due course, she issued divorce proceedings.

The prosecution say that it will become apparent the first defendant took the separation badly.

Mr Rees said the father had been granted fortnightly supervised
contact with his children but he had launched legal proceedings for
greater access.

This application was being opposed by his wife.

We say the evidence suggests that in an effort to ensure his
application was successful he was willing to manufacture evidence of
injuries to his children in an attempt to show that his wife was unable
properly to care for them, in other words she was an unfit mother.

Mr Rees told the jury that six years earlier the mother had left her
husband, but returned after three days to be accused of ‘humiliating
him’.

Rees said:

He told her that he had spoken to an Imam.

He said that he had asked the imam whether he was allowed to kill his
wife and his children in accordance with the religion, but the imam
told him that he could not do that and was advised to pray instead.

In the same vein, and in front of his wife, he threatened to take the
children outside the UK to a Muslim country to have them killed.

He also threatened to get someone else to kill his wife and the children.

The father also hired a private detective to carry out surveillance on his wife.

Mr Rees added:

The prosecution suggest that the threats he made about having his
children killed help provide an answer to one of the questions which
arise in this case: what sort of a father can contemplate deliberately
injuring one of his children?