Photos: Ten months later, acid attack victim speaks. "I could feel my face melting away"

Andrea, 29, was left in a coma with severe burns and bling in one eye after the horrific attack on December 2014. On that fateful day he was at home near Truro, Cornwall, with wife Pia, 33, and son Theo, now two, when his nightmare began.

"I opened the door and a man I had never seen before was standing on the doorstep. He was holding a large beaker in his hand"

The man who was later identified as David Phillips, shouted: "‘This is for you, mate,’ and flung his arm up towards me. I’ve never felt pain like it. My eyes, my face, were on fire. I could feel my face melting."

 

 Andreas was rushed to hospital where doctors feared he would die. Ten months on, he has endured hours of surgery, has to wear a mask to protect his skin and cannot close his eye. He feared losing his sight completely and never seeing his son again. 

 

 "There have been times when I have howled with hysterical tears. But I am never going to allow what happened to define me." Andrea Christopheros said. "The idea of not being able to see him crucified me." he said.

Last week David Phillips (pictured above) 49, from Hastings, East Sussex, was jailed for life after admitting Great Bodily Harm with intent. He carried out the sulphuric acid attack after wrongly identifying Andreas’ house as being the home of a man who sexually assaulted a relative.

Source: Daily Star