Man jailed for 'noxious fluid' attack at Vauxhall club

A man has been jailed after splashing a noxious fluid over six strangers in a "vile and violent" attack outside a nightclub. Jonathan Lynn, 29, emptied the contents of a plastic bottle over a group of young gay friends in Vauxhall, in London. He previously pleaded guilty at Inner London Crown Court to causing the three men actual bodily harm outside the Lightbox nightclub on June 8th and possessing an offensive weapon, namely a noxious fluid.

Some of the victims were left with ulcers in their eyes and mouths as well as "significant" pyschological problems, the court heard. Sentencing Lynn to two years and four months, Recorder David Etherington QC said: "I make this clear, this was a vile, violent, cowardly and disgraceful attack by you, but I do not find it was motivated by dislike or hate of people of homosexual orientation. "You wrecked a number of people's lives."