Senior district prosecutor, Rachael Scott, said the attack was “truly horrific”.<\/p>\n
“Danny suffered the most horrific injuries having endured 10 operations and losing the sight in his eye,” she said.<\/p>\n
“It was a orchestrated, you could almost say, an execution of Danny because of this outstanding drug debt.”<\/p>\n
Norton said Cahalane suffered “significant corrosive injuries”.<\/p>\n
“For most if not all of the weeks between the assault and his death, he would have been in significant pain,” she said.<\/p>\n
Det Supt Rachael Bentley from Devon and Cornwall Police said it was a “particularly barbaric attack on a man in his own home”.<\/p>\n
“Despite for a time successfully fighting off his attackers, Danny must have been terrified,” she said.<\/p>\n
“Acid attacks remain rare in Devon and Cornwall but are a particularly cowardly and devastating means of violence.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Senior district prosecutor, Rachael Scott, said the attack was “truly horrific”. “Danny suffered the most horrific injuries having…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":721236,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-721235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=721235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/721236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}