Takeaway boss suffers horrendous facial injuries after teen thugs squirted ACID in his face as he tried to deliver a pizza
Imran Khan has been left traumatised after gutless thugs attacked him - with police now investigating
A TERRIFIED takeaway boss who was squirted in the face with acid, suffering horrific burns, has spoken of his horror of being targeted by teenage thugs.
Devastated dad Imran Khan, 37, was left with burning eyes and suffered devastating injuries to his neck, cheeks and his eyebrows after the brutal street attack.
The traumatised father-of-five said he was "still in shock" after a yob sprayed the liquid from a Lucozade bottle through his car window in a senseless attack.
Mr Khan had been jumped out of the blue by a mob of up to FOURTEEN teenage brutes in Barking, Essex, just minutes earlier as he tried to deliver a pizza.
Reliving the first blood-chilling attack, he said: "There were a group of 13 or 14 of them - they just surrounded me."
He added: "They started swearing at me and I didn't know what to do.
"They took the food off me and threw it at my face."
A shocked passer-by alerted police and the cowardly louts ran off.
But Mr Khan was forced to return to the road to re-deliver the order from his takeaway business in nearby Dagenham.
He then drove a short distance to pick up his wife Farina Bibi, 33, from her sister's house.
But before he could even get out of his car Mr Khan was targeted by two teenage boys suspected to have been involved in the first incident at about 6pm one night last week.
One of the gutless thugs fired acid at his face as he sat helplessly in his motor before fleeing.
"My face was burning - it was horrible.
"I was in a lot of pain and couldn't even open my eyes it was that bad," said Imran.
The shell-shocked businessman screamed for help from a shopkeeper based just yards away.
The quick-thinking Good Samaritan poured a big bottle of water on panic-stricken Mr Khan's scalded face in a bid to cool him down.
"I think that's what saved me.
"The burns didn't go too deep thank goodness," he said.
Mr Khan was rushed to Queen's Hospital, Romford, and spent a night there having intensive treatment before being allowed home the next day.
Imran, of Ilford, is now treating his burns with two different types of creams and antiseptic eyedrops.
He's been referred to a scar specialist at London's Whipps Cross University Hospital but has also been left seriously shaken up by the horrifying attacks.
"It was shocking, I'm still in shock," admitted Mr Khan, who fears he'll be scarred for life.
"I'm more angry than anything.
"They should be punished for what they've done to me.
"If they did this to me, what could they do to more vulnerable people?";
A Met Police spokesman said they had launched an urgent investigation and were hunting the thugs.
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