Clapham chemical attack – live: Police reveal new footage of raid in search for fugitive suspect

The chemical used in the attack was either liquid sodium hydroxide or liquid sodium carbonate, according to the Met Police.

Commander Savell said: “I can also provide an update today on laboratory analysis of the substance from the attack site.

“The liquid used in the attack was a very strong concentrated corrosive substance, either liquid sodium hydroxide or liquid sodium carbonate.

“Further enquiries are ongoing including comparison with the containers seized from Ezedi’s address in Newcastle.”

Police have revealed the last known sighting of the Clapham chemical attack suspect and offered a £20,000 reward for anyone with information that leads to his arrest.

As the manhunt for Abdul Ezedi continued for the fourth day, police revealed the convicted sex offender was last seen exiting Tower Hill Station at 9.33pm on Wednesday.

Ezedi fled Clapham after allegedly dousing a woman, 31, and her two children aged three and eight, in an alkaline substance which left the mother in a serious condition with life-changing injuries.

The Metropolitan Police has offered a £20,000 reward to anyone who can provide information leading to the arrest of 35-year-old Abdul Ezedi.

Commander Jon Savell said: ““I am hugely grateful to the public for the significant number of calls that we have received. Your help is critical. A reward of up to £20,000 is now available for information leading to his arrest.

“I must warn anyone who is helping Ezedi to evade capture – if you are harbouring or assisting him then you will be arrested.”

A passerby stopped a fugitive from slamming a three-year-old girl into the floor by rugby tackling him to the ground, a witness said.

“We had no idea any substance was involved; only that the guy was clearly intent on hurting the [three-year-old],”a witness told The Times.

“He then went to pick the child up off the road to do it [throw the child to the ground] again, which is when my partner lunged in and tackled him, grabbing his leg and falling to the ground in the process like a rugby tackle.”

The relative, who has not been named, said they would “bring in” 35-year-old suspect Abdul Ezedi themselves and expressed concern about his wellbeing.

Ezedi fled Clapham after allegedly dousing a woman, 31, and her two children aged three and eight, in an alkaline substance which left the mother in a serious condition with life-changing injuries.

A manhunt for alkali attack suspect Abdul Ezedi is continuing as police renewed their appeal for the public’s in help finding him.

Detectives have urged the 35-year-old from the Newcastle area – who is described as having very “significant injuries to the right side of his face” – to hand himself in after going on the run following Wednesday’s attack in Clapham, south London.

A 31-year-old mother, believed to be known to Ezedi, was attacked with a corrosive alkaline substance and remains “very poorly” and sedated in hospital, with her injuries thought to be “life-changing”.

The injuries to her daughters, aged three and eight, are “not likely to be life-changing”.

The wanted man was last seen at King’s Cross underground station on Wednesday night, where he boarded a southbound Victoria line train.

The suspect accused of throwing an alkaline substance at a mother and her two children in Clapham, leaving her and one daughter with potentially life-changing injuries, was “known to the victims,” Met Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley has said.

It has been reported that Abdul Ezedi was able to gain asylum after claiming he had converted to Christianity.

The Diocese of Hexham and Newcastle said in a statement it had found nothing to suggest he had become a Catholic but checks were continuing.

It said: “Our thoughts and prayers are first and foremost with the victims of this appalling attack in south London.”

The diocese confirmed that Ezedi “visited our diocesan Justice and Peace Refugee Project, a charitable venture which assists a wide range of people who come to us in need”.

It added: “After checking local parish records and central records and after consulting with clergy we have no indication that Abdul Ezedi was received into the Catholic faith in this diocese or that a Catholic priest of this diocese gave him a reference.

“We do not know which Christian church received him nor which Christian minister gave him a reference.”