Tne Guardian on the Beckton acid attack (quoting the police, who see it as a hate crime, and as part of a trend in both London and Manchester):

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/jul/10/beckton-acid-attack-suspect-in-custody-after-handing-himself-in

The Independent's article

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/acid-attack-london-john-tomlin-arrested-model-resham-khan-jameel-muhktar-a7832616.html

is more recent but seems to have been written from older information, and leaves out the police's evaluation of what's going on. The Twitter links I pointed out more than confirm the police's picture. There seems to be a subculture of kippers who, since the Brexit vote, have started getting their jollies by throwing acid at anyone who looks Muslim.

The Met have taken down their profile of Tomlin - perhaps now they've got him they don't want to prejudice his trial.