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• On January 31, Abdul Ezedi allegedly decanted a corrosive substance over a mother and her two children.
• Thankfully, the injuries sustained by the victims were not life threatening, but the mother’s were described as “potentially life changing”.

How many acid attacks are there?

• However, this has since gone up again, with 710 attacks reported in 2022 (an increase of 70%).
• My research with colleagues into the motivations of acid offenders shows that attacks in countries including India, Bangladesh and Colombia are commonly misogynistic attacks by men against women.
• As is often the case with crime statistics, data on the number of acid attacks is patchy.

• Our research observed that in 455 cases of crimes involving acid, 15% were genuinely acid attacks but 32% actually involved household products such as bleach.
• The research found that acid was most likely to be used against a criminal rival, while household products were most likely to be used against a partner.

What is being done to prevent acid attacks?

• During the spike in acid attacks in 2017, convicted offenders were given heavy sentences, as a deterrent to others.
• The government’s serious violence strategy, published in 2018, placed a priority on acid attacks, and called for a public health approach to tackle serious violence.
• Thankfully, serious acid attacks like the one in Clapham are rare, though attacks where less serious injuries occur are more common.

Matt Hopkins receives funding from Home Office. I received a Home Office grant to study this in 2018 (which ended in 2020).

• FLORHAM PARK, N.J., Feb. 01, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Celularity Inc. (Nasdaq: CELU) (the “Company”) a biotechnology company developing allogeneic cell therapies and advanced biomaterial products, today announced expected net sales of its biomaterial products and biobanking businesses for the first quarter 2024 and the full year 2024, respectively, and reiterated its previously disclosed advanced biomaterial product commercial and development pipeline.
• “Our sales of advanced biomaterial products grew dramatically in the fourth quarter of 2023 as our newest Biovance 3L product gained traction.
• The Company expects in future to update expected full year 2024 net sales of its advanced biomaterial product and biobanking businesses.
• The Company’s advanced biomaterial product pipeline consists of four commercial-stage products and three development-stage product candidates.

• Tokens cannot be divided into smaller parts, like 0.99, 5.5, 80.33 – it can only be, for example, 1, 5, 80.
• Scarce is an ecosystem that will partner with many projects and deliver a lot of extras along the way.
• The Brolex collection is a collection of 4096 stunning watch NFT's of varying traits and rarity.
• These utilities will all lead to burns of SCARCE and generate revenue for marketing and development.

• PROVIDENCE, R.I., Jan. 31, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Burns & Levinson LLP announced today that Meaghan Kelly has joined the firm's Trusts & Estates Group as Of Counsel.
• Prior to joining Burns & Levinson, she was a partner at Cameron & Mittleman LLP, where she handled complex trusts and estate matters for over five years.
• Previously, she served as Chief of the Estate and Gift Tax Department at Rhode Island's Division of Taxation.
• "We are excited to add Meaghan to our highly regarded trusts and estate team," said Paul Mastrocola, Managing Partner at Burns & Levinson.