Haddington Schoolgirl Acid Attacker's Fake Pen Letter

The middle-class teens' feud that ended in girl, 18, being scarred for life by ACID: Barrister's daughter who poured drain cleaner into rival's viola case faked letter making out SHE was the real victim.....
A teenage acid attacker who poured drain cleaner into her love rival's viola case and scarred her for life faked a letter from her victim saying she should commit suicide.

Emily Bowen, who was jailed this week for an acid attack on love rival Molly Young, prepared the note saying she should kill herself and signed it with Molly's name, it emerged today.

The calculating move by Bowen took place six weeks after she had poured One Shot drain cleaner - containing 91 per cent sulphuric acid - into Molly's viola case.

The corrosive liquid then poured out of the case and onto 18-year-old Molly's legs as she took the instrument down from a shelf in the music room at Knox Academy, in Haddington, East Lothian.

The girls, described as 'talented musicians', had fallen out when Miss Young began seeing Bowen's former boyfriend.

Bowen was jailed for 21 months for the 'wicked' incident - which took place in September last year - at Edinburgh Sheriff Court on Monday.

The court had previously been told that the 18-year-old had penned the poisonous letter to herself and signed it with her victim's name.

It is understood the letter was written in a bid to try and explain her terrible actions.

Fiscal depute Aidan Higgins said: 'On November 10 last year Emily Bowen prepared a letter which appeared to come from Molly Young in which she talked of Emily Bowen to kill herself.

'Subsequently Emily Bowen admitted it was she who was the author of the letter.'

Sheriff O'Grady said her 'careful and premeditated actions' combined with the penning of the note 'casts a very disturbing light on your thinking'.