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Woman is charged with murder after a man was attacked with acid | Woman is charged with murder after a man was attacked with acid |
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A woman has been charged with murder following the death of a man who was attacked with acid. | A woman has been charged with murder following the death of a man who was attacked with acid. |
Mark van Dongen, 29, a Dutch national, lost a leg, an eye and movement from the neck down after suffering 80% burns when he was attacked in Bristol in September 2015. | Mark van Dongen, 29, a Dutch national, lost a leg, an eye and movement from the neck down after suffering 80% burns when he was attacked in Bristol in September 2015. |
He died in Belgium on 2 January. | He died in Belgium on 2 January. |
Berlinah Wallace, 47, of Ladysmith Road, Westbury Park, Bristol, appeared at Bristol Crown Court and has been remanded in custody until 27 March. | |
She was previously charged with throwing/casting a corrosive fluid with intent, but the charge was changed to murder during the court hearing, Avon and Somerset Police said. | |
Mr van Dongen was from the Netherlands but had been working in Bristol as a civil engineer. | |
He was injured on Ladysmith Road and spent two months in intensive care at Southmead Hospital before being moved to its burns centre. | |
Friends of his family eventually raised money for a private ambulance to take him to a hospital in Belgium, where his father lives, in November 2016. |
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