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Elly Blake

Teenager jailed for ‘shocking and needless’ acid attack in Newham park

Linden Crick was jailed for eight years

(Picture: Metropolitan Police)

A teenager who squirted acid in the face of a teenage boy he was attempting to rob in Newham has been jailed for eight years after what has been described as a “shocking and needless” attack.

The court heard that 17-year-old Linden Crick entered Plashet Park about 5pm on February 2 last year.

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