Acid Attack Murder Victim ‘Was Being Abused By His Girlfriend’

A man who died after an alleged acid attack was being physically abused by the woman accused of his murder, a court heard.Mark van Dongen was left with ″gashes″ around his neck and torso, inflicted by his girlfriend Berlinah Wallace, Bristol Crown Court was told.Wallace denies charges of murder and throwing a corrosive fluid with the intention to burn, maim, disfigure, disable or commit GBH.Prosecutors claim Wallace carried out the attack out of jealousy after van Dongen began seeing