Kelvin Pogo’s face was damaged after the attack by his ex-girlfriend Esther Afrifa.
A woman was recently sentenced to 14 years in prison. for pouring acid on his girlfriend’s face while it was sleeping and then attacking a second time while she was lying injured. It all happened in the midst of an attack of jealousy: he thought his partner was unfaithful to him.
Esther Afrifa, 28, bought a liter of sulfuric acid on the Internet in 2019 and left it next to her bed ready to attack Kelvin Pogo29, at his home in Wembley, north London.
After the first attack, Afrifa tries to prevent Pogo from receiving medical treatment, which leaves him with life-changing injuries and leaves him plagued by suicidal thoughts.
Kelvin Pogo disfigures his partner. He was sentenced to 14 years in prison.
“Every day I wake up like the day he is attacking me. Time seems to have stopped. Every time someone knocks on the door I get scared … He used to be my world and he did it to me. I just don’t understand. ”The man also confirmed that since the attack he has had several stages of thoughts of suicide.
Kelvin Pogo, in a photo months before the brutal attack that left him with consequences for life.
Afrifa threw the acid at Pogo in the early hours of December 22, 2019. He first threw it at his chest while he was sleeping. Fast burned his t-shirtas learned from the proceedings statements held this week on Harrow Crown Court.
At first she did not realize that her boyfriend was responsible and asked her for help before water poured over her wounds. Then another odyssey started for Pogo, because Afrifa pretended to call 999 medical emergency, re -followed his steps and attacked Pogo again as he lay on the couch suffering while waiting for the doctors: he hit him and threw acid, this time in his face.
Only then did Pogo understand everything that was going on. Afrifa shouted at him that he had betrayed, which proved wrong. So. Pogo ran out of his house and in the middle of the road he was able to help someone who had just passed by and taken him to a hospital. The woman tried to flee the scene, but police found her hiding in an alley a few hours later.
Esther Afrifa will be imprisoned for 14 years and then could be deported back to her home country of Ghana.
During the trial, Pogo Said another thrilling detail: Afrifa first tried to get him to drink acid from a bottle when he felt his chest burning. I told him it was tap water, and he should drink it calmly. But someone saved him: his lack of confidence in tap water, since he was young he learned not to drink because in his native Ghana, in Africa, tap water contains germs.
pogo, who moved to Britain to study filmwas left with ongoing mental trauma and permanent damage to his eyes, head, face, and upper body.
Kelvin suffers deep wounds on his face every day.
For assault, Afrifa was sentenced to 14 years in prison by the judge Charles Bourne. “It’s a really bad thing,” the magistrate said. The detective Tom Dawoodthe investigating officer in the case, said: “The victim suffered horrific injuries to Afrifa’s hands and has endured months of surgery and hospital visits since the attack.”
Defendant indicated that she thought her boyfriend had a hidden relationship with a university classmate, and this led her to take the inexplicable decision to plan an attack that he was completely exhausted.
The woman was sentenced to 14 years in prison.
“I am pleased that Afrifa has been brought to justice for his heinous crime and will now serve a meaningful prison sentence,” Dawood said, explaining that Afrifa is likely to be deported to Ghana (has the same nationality as his former partner) after he was released many years from now.
Source: Clarin
