Acid Victim Begged Police For Help Weeks Before Attack That Left Him Blind And Paralysed

An acid attack victim begged police for help just three weeks before his girlfriend allegedly attacked him, a court heard on Friday.Mark van Dongen made a frantic 999 call telling an operator “something needs to be done”.The 29-year-old accused ex-lover Berlinah Wallace, 48, of blackmail and also told a colleague she threatened to kill him if he left her.He told an operator she was threatening to tell police he had downloaded child abuse images unless he met her and was making silent