Posted by Former model and television presenter Katie Piper faces a new life after the sulphuric acid attack on her last March 2008. Her attacker Stefan Marcel Sylvestre, 22, has just recently failed to change his lifelong jail sentence as three top judges of the Court of Appeal rejected his lawyers’ appeal to better his sentence last July 2, 2010.
It was in London when Katie exited a cafe that Sylvestre approached her with a cup that the actress thought was filled with coffee. Not long after, the man threw the cup to her face and she scream due to the burning sensation she felt as the liquid settled in her face and neck. The liquid was sulphuric acid which burnt the beautiful face of the young model. After several treatments, the young model appeared in public again as she narrates her inspiring story in Glam stage last month.
Paying the offense they made, Katie’s attacker Sylvestre and the master mind behind the crime, her ex-boyfriend Danny Lynch were now in jail branded as a public risk. The 2008 event of her life was now set aside to get a new and better life. “Every scar tells a story and when something like this happens which is not an accident but a deliberate action, I’m not prepared to let it ruin my future,” said Katie in an interview in Glam. “I realised that there are others out there, just like me, who maybe haven’t had the support and attention I’ve had.
That’s why setting up this charity is so important to me, but I feel a bit selfish,” said the former model when asked about the Katie Piper Foundation she established for burns victims. The former young model ended the interview with an astounding applaud from the audience.
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The real question that some are too chivalrous to ask why did the attack take place. We all feel for her loss but one has to ask, what did she do to compel a guy to make such an attack…
It doesn't matter what took place before the attack. No one should be attacked, especially in a manner such as this.
Does it matter? There is no excuse for what he did to her. Besides, reading the history of the guy, he sounds like a sociopath.
That is such a horrific attitude to have, Cassy, assuming she did something to compel the guy.
Obviously he was not altogether upstairs. If the guy was that diabolic and evil to want her destroyed after the relationship, he was most likely unrealistic and controlling in the relationship.
Good for her standing up and being strong!
You're clearly crazy. I think you should seek help if you thik that this poor girl asked for that to happen to her.
guys can just be assholes at times due to jealously. I'm guessing it was over that.
Well, Cassy, before you go making inane comments like that, YOU should go look up what happened. Lynch was a sociopath that had thrown boiling water into a man's face before. He attacked Katie at a hotel where he viciously raped and stabbed her. She went to an internet cafe to read her e-mail along with one he sent her after begging her for 2 days to forgive him. When she was leaving, Sylvestre threw the acid in her face. This happened 2 days after Lynch attacked her. Sylvestre was hired by Lynch to do this and both are now in prison. Lynch received 2 life sentences which means he'll be out in about 12 years. No telling how angry he'll be after that.
So you see, it wasn't chivalry that kept people from asking, it was an incredibly mean and stupid thing to ask without doing some checking first.
He was lucky to get a great new look.
I'm concerned for her.Isn't there some way to help her?Like gather people to donate for her to undergo plastic surgery?
it's funny how women hate men for doing this, but if a woman cuts a man p*nis, she go to oprah and everybody laughing at what she did to the man…
so when a man did horrible thing to a woman, he is evil no matter what, but when a woman did a horrible thing to a man, well… its girl power….
Jimmy your a moran
jimmy and matt: YOU’RE both MORONS.