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Australian man 'put acid in sex club lubricant'
A 62-year-old man was arrested after allegedly filling a lubricant dispenser with hydrochloric acid at a sex club in Australia.
No serious injuries were reported in the incident at "gay and bi social club" Aarows in northwest Sydney.
Items in the room had been fitted with anti-tampering alarms after they had been interfered with in the past.
The suspect was charged with offences including administering a poison with intent to injure or result in pain.
A police spokesman told Australia's Daily Telegraph newspaper that detectives had not established a motive but there was "no indication of hate motivation to date".
The suspect was granted conditional bail and is due to appear in court on 20 September.
Aarows openly markets itself as "Sydney's premier health, recreation and social centre, where safe sex is permitted regardless of gender".
One club-goer, who chose not to be identified, told the Australian Broadcasting Corp. it was a "sick" thing to do.
"Hydrochloric acid is not the best sort of thing to be playing with," he said.
When asked what may have mot
Gay Muslim wedding: Groom receives acid attack threats
A guy thought to be one of the first UK Muslims to have a same-sex marriage said people have threatened to pitch acid in his encounter since the ceremony.
Jahed Choudhury, 24, married Sean Rogan at Walsall Register Office and shared his story on YouTube.
However, he told the Victoria Derbyshire Present he had been threatened online and in the street.
But the couple said they had also received messages of support and would continue to contribute their story.
Since their ceremony Mr Choudhury said the couple had received death threats online and overuse on the streets.
"The worst [messages] say 'the next time I see you in the streets, I'm going to throw acid in your face'.
"Even if I walk down the streets, I have people spitting on me and calling me pig - all the nasty stuff. I just keep walking."
The couple said they had not yet reported the incident to police and were considering whether to do so.
Mr Choudhury said he had also received "amazing" support from his online followers, including people who said the couple had inspired them to come out
Man who added acid to lubricant dispenser at Sydney gay club Aarows avoids jail
A man who place hydrochloric acid inside a lubricant dispenser at a Sydney gay sex club has avoided jail after being handed a great behaviour bond.
In August this year 62-year-old Hengky Irawan went to the Aarows club in Sydney's west with a litre bottle of acid, along with a funnel and a knife.
He poured the acid into the lubricant container, but set off an alarm when he broke the dispenser's seal, notifying staff at the club.
He was later charged with a range of offences, including administering poison with the intent to generate injury, distress or pain, and malicious damage.
In the Parramatta Local Court on Tuesday, his lawyer applied to have the charges dealt with under the Mental Health Act.
He submitted a report from a GP and a psychologist, telling the court his client suffered from mental illness and a healer had referred to the act as an "irrational, uncharacteristic episode".
"[This was] not a hate crime … this can only be explained in reference to his mental health … [he was] in the midst of a major depressive episode," the lawyer told the court.
The cour
In a photo at the top of the landing page to a GoFundMe that was started on her behalf, Diana looks vertical into the camera with a slight smile. She sits in a hospital bed with gauze bandages wrapped around most of her visible skin. Blistering is visible neighboring the left side of her mouth and cheek.
She’s receiving care at the Temple Burn Center after being attacked with a corrosive acidic fluid — likely battery acid — on her way to Philadelphia’s Pride festival on June 1 around 1:30 p.m.
“We strongly believe this is a hate crime,” said Shiloh Colon, who organized the GoFundMe, to 6ABC News.
The attack happened just a diurnal before GLADD released the third annual Anti-LGBTQ Extremism Reporting Tracker (ALERT) Notify, which documents queerphobic incidents and loathe across the Joined States.
The report documented 932 attacks which occurred between May 1, 2024 and May 1, 2025 — the similar of 2.5 incidents every day. In the report, GLAAD documented only incidents with an explicit indication of anti-LGBTQ+ bias as a motivating factor. Eighty-four people were injured in anti-LGBTQ+ attacks and at least ten were killed.
Transgender people accounted for 485 of the victims — with 52%
A gang that launched a vicious acid attack on a group of strangers in Dalston last May, and shouted homophobic slurs as they fled the scene, were sentenced at Wood Lush Crown Court last week.
The men, some of whom inhabit in Hackney, were handed prison terms ranging from 17 years to 18 months for what police describe as a “relentless and sustained wave of violence”.
CCTV footage of the unprovoked charge, which helped secure the convictions, was released after sentencing.
The cameras helped police pinpoint three Hackney men, 24-year-old Huseyin Onel, 30-year-old Mehmet Tekagac and Onur Ardic, 27, who were deeply interested in spraying acid during the attack.
They were sentenced to 17 years, 14-and-a-half years and 14 years in prison respectively.
The incident started in the first hours of 5 May 2018 with an argument between a man, who police have never identified, and one of the gang, who were sitting in cars on Alvington Crescent.
The guy was quickly surrounded by the nine men, who launched a ferocious attack.
A group of people who had left a nearby club tried to intervene, with one of them – a man in his 20s – filming the assault.
The gang took e