LONDON, UK: Katie Piper said that she was recently rushed to the hospital for an emergency surgery after being attacked with sulfuric acid, which burned her face badly and made one of her eyes go blind. After talking on Facebook, the 38-year-old TV host started dating Daniel Lynch in February 2008.
In 2008, Lynch raped Piper and then told a friend, Stefan Sylvestre, to do an acid attack on her. This turned the relationship into a horrifying experience. Piper was put into a coma and kept there for 12 days. She also had to get skin grafts.
Piper wrote in her most recent Instagram post, “On Saturday, my husband saw a small black circle in my blind eye. I was excited because I thought I had a pupil again, but by Sunday, my left eye was in a lot of pain and couldn’t handle light, so I put a patch on it and thought it was because of old injuries. I’m used to feeling uncomfortable, so I went to work.”
Stefan Sylvestre is going to get out of prison for the second time in two years. He used acid to hurt Katie Piper.
The thug who doused Katie Piper with acid in 2008 got out of jail, making people worried about her safety.
“By Sunday evening, I was sick and in a lot of pain. I called my eye doctor, @sherazdaya @centreforsightuk, and he confirmed that the black circle was a hole in my eye and that the eye had perforated. It was always thought that this would happen,” she said. “Yesterday, @sherazdaya got me some tissue and did surgery on me. I can’t thank him and his team enough for all that they know and how kind and caring they are. There may be some bad people in the world, but there are also a lot of amazing people who do great things for other people every day. Thank you so much, Sherazdaya team and Centre for Sight UK! You’re awesome!”
Piper recently talked about how the attack changed her life. Piper told Christine Lampard, Coleen Nolan, and Janet Street-Porter on the panel, “When I think back on it, it does feel like I lived two different lives.” I’m 38 years old, but I feel like I’m in my 70s or 80s. Because of what’s happened to me, I’ve gone through so much in such a short amount of time, while some people don’t go through that much in their whole lives.”
“In some ways, you can look at that as a good thing, because life experiences make us better people and help us grow, but in other ways, it was a lot. Both my mind and body were affected by it. Some of the changes to my body are still happening as I get better,” she said.
“No one is ready for that. It felt like my whole life turned upside down in an instant. People go through trauma in different ways, and what has happened to me is obviously more visible than what has happened to other people. Trauma happens, but it doesn’t have to be a life sentence,” she said.
She said of how her parents handled the situation, “It was pretty hard because when people think of burns, they think of military heroes, burns in the kitchen, or fireworks.” “I don’t think any of us knew how much it affects so many functions and so many other health problems inside the body that we had to learn about…” “It didn’t just happen to me by chance. A long court case with many different charges that affected my siblings, my parents, and me,” she said.
When Piper thought back on her childhood in a small village, she said, “I was a tomboy. I had a dreadful haircut – a bowl haircut. My dad was a barber in the village, and my mom was a teacher, so you either got a haircut from my dad or got in trouble from my mom. “It was nothing bad. Growing up, I never had any real pain or trauma. My mom and dad cared about us… She also said, “They weren’t about having big goals, but about being independent and making your own way in life.”
The attack on Piper was caught on CCTV, and Sylvestre was soon arrested. Lynch was caught later, and both of them got life sentences. Sylvestre got out of jail on October 10, 2018. He was sent back to jail 13 months later, but he was cleared of taking cars without permission. After that, a parole board said he could be free in 2020. In 2018, it came out that Lynch had been given nearly £200,000 ($242,333) in legal aid paid for by taxpayers.