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| Acid attack: Mark van Dongen's ex-partner cleared of murder | |
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| A woman has been cleared of murdering her former partner in an acid attack which led him to end his life. | A woman has been cleared of murdering her former partner in an acid attack which led him to end his life. |
| Berlinah Wallace, 48, hurled the corrosive fluid at Dutch engineer Mark van Dongen in Bristol in 2015. | Berlinah Wallace, 48, hurled the corrosive fluid at Dutch engineer Mark van Dongen in Bristol in 2015. |
| Fifteen months later he ended his life by euthanasia in a Belgian hospital. He was paralysed from the neck down and had lost a leg, ear and eye. | |
| At Bristol Crown Court, Wallace was found guilty of throwing a corrosive substance with intent. | |
| The fashion student, originally from South Africa, had also been charged with murder. | |
| During the three-week trial she told the jury Mr van Dongen had put the acid in a glass for her to drink. | |
| The pair had met five years before on a dating website for people with HIV, as both had the condition. |