Acid assault model Katie Piper finds sight back

A model who was missing blind in one eye after acid was thrown in her face has told of her happiness after having her sight brought back by stem cell treatment.

Katie Piper undergone third degree blazes when an ex-boyfriend arranged for acid to be thrown in her face.

She lost sight in one eye, but following cure by doctors at the Queen Victoria Hospital, in East Grinstead, it has been restored.

She said earlier to her operation her sight was like "being underwater".

Ms Piper, 28, has had just about100 operations to heal injure done to her face in the assault in 2008.

But doctors held out slight hope of her sight being returned after the acid flamed into her cornea and left a scar across it.

But, experts took tissue from an unidentified donor, raised it and then stitched it into her hurt eye.

She said: ''I can see shadows, I can evaluate depth, I can see movement, I can see figures - if someone holds their hand up I can see how many fingers they are holding up.

''I would say the most noteworthy thing about returning my sight is I can be freer if I have operations on my good eye.''

A Channel 4 documentary group followed Ms Piper as she underwent the surgery.

She said: ''Of all my wounds, it's the injured to my left eye that has the main impact.

"The challenging section is not being able to see anything on one side. In crowded places it goes away me sentiments shocked and hopeless."

Eye specialist Sheraz Daya, who healed Ms Piper, said: "We had these cells made by the eye bank in East Grinstead and we removed them on to Katie's eye.

"The charming point about all this is while we're taking tissue from somebody who deceased, in the long term what we have originated is that there's no DNA from that person.

"So we think, in Katie's case, all the cells that we've resettled to be dispersed and for them to be restored by Katie's tissue."

Ms. Piper has set up her own charity intended at making it easier to live with burns and scars.

Meredith Kercher has been elapsed, says family

'Atrocious murder' of student Meredith Kercher has been elapsed as Amanda Knox plea against killing certainty reaches end.

Members of Meredith Kercher's family has said that the "atrocious death" of the UK student has been forgotten as the application by Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito against their murder assurance makes a peak.

"I feel Meredith has been immensely forgotten," said Kercher's sister Stephanie during a hurridly described and irregularly confused press conference in Perugia on Monday with Kercher's mother Arline and brother Lyle. "Everybody required remembering the cruelty of what occurred and everything she went through, the fright and the terror and not recognizing why."

"It is very difficult to locate pardon at this time," said Lyle Kercher. "Four years is a very long time but on the contrary it is still raw."

Shielding the display of horrible crime scene images in court, he added: "It was a way to strengthen how dreadful it actually was. You would discover it tough to excuse if that was your sibling."

But as they promised for the reliability of the convictions, Kercher's sister Stephanie also advised the family would acknowledge the court's verdict if it reversed them when two judges and six jurors return their judgment later this evening.

"If they make a decision on the existing record to them and not on the media propaganda, justice will be confidently be made," said Stephanie. "Either way that will be we will have to contract with this evening."

Asked about the PR movement arranged by the Knox family to clear their daughter Amanda, Lyle said "any loving parent" would have made the similar, but further that the Kercher's family lawyer, Francesco Maresca, who has been supporting the prosecution’s case during the investigations, was "continuously fighting against a very large PR machine".

Asked if she would "reach out" to the Knox family if their daughter was released, Arline Kercher said: "I don't know actually. We want to learn what happened."

Before the press conference, Maresca ruled out the opportunity of anxiety in the court room when the Kerchers and the Knox family find themselves alongside each other this evening to listen to the judgment. "It is more the remains that make stress, and the Kerchers are more interested in remembering their daughter outer the courtroom. Their concentration is on that."

Arline was the most inflexible of the family members that Italian justice had done well. "I feel it is quite excellent" she said, emphasizing that the investigator judge had created a 400-page file giving the causes for the sincerity.

"In England you don't have that," she said, further that proof had been discovered against Knox and Sollecito beyond the doubtful DNA confirmation.

Meredith's death had left a "immense absence," for the Kerchers, said Lyle. "It is as if she went on an extensive rupture and we haven't seen her come back as yet."