The child sustained serious burns to his face and arm after sulphuric acid was sprayed at him as he and his mother looked for a birthday present in a busy shop in Worcester.
Following a 7-week trial at Worcester Crown Court, the jury unanimously convicted the three-year-old child’s father, who cannot be named for legal reasons, and his five co-conspirators, for plotting and carrying out the attack.
The father had enlisted the other men to organise and carry out the attack in a bid to manufacture evidence to discredit his estranged wife during an on-going custody battle.
The six men received sentences of between 16 and 12 years imprisonment.
In his sentencing remarks the judge described the crime as “monstrous”.
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