Six years on…Acid attack victim may finally get justice

Jo-Ann Lynch before Jo-Ann Lynch after

Six years after she had the horrific experience of being doused with a corrosive substance that has left her facially disfigured, 31-year-old Jo-Ann Lynch may soon get justice as the woman behind the attack is believed to have been nabbed in neighbouring Trinidad.

Crime Chief Seelall Persaud told the Sunday Stabroek that the Guyana Police Force was informed by its counterpart in Trinidad that police may have arrested Onika Sinclair, who is behind that horrific June 2006 attack on Lynch. Persaud said the Trinidadian police requested some information in an effort to verify that the woman is indeed Sinclair and the Guyana police have since provided that information.

For her part Lynch is hoping that the woman is indeed Sinclair and that she would be placed before the courts and brought to justice. She indicated that on Wednesday last she received a