Naomi Oni before the attack

She claimed the police treated her with suspicion because the search history on her computer showed that she had looked up plastic surgery sites and googled the name of Katie Piper, the model and actress who was attacked by acid in 2008, prior to being attacked herself.

But Oni said she had been interested in Piper simply because "it was a moving and touching story".

"If that has been found on my laptop, I don't see what that has to do with someone wearing a veil coming to attack me," she said.

Oni also pointed to CCTV footage used during the trial of her attacker, which clearly showed her wearing a veil and secretly following Oni home from her job at a Victoria's Secret shop in December 2012.

"You can see that what I said is what happened, so where did that accusation [about lying] come from?" Oni said. "We've all seen the CCTV footage. There was a person in a veil following me. Why was this not found in the beginning? Nobody has answers to tell me."

Acid attack victim Naomi Oni accuses police of incompetence