To be fair, Jack has stopped trying to link it to racism.

No I haven't. Only some acid attacks are racist, but there are enough such to terrify whole populations into feeling they're potential targets. Which is what terrorism is intended to achieve.

London delivery riders have been targeted lately. Being proletarian in an exposed and friendless occupation makes you fair game for these thugs; ipso facto that's the sort of occupation non-white Londoners will be disproportionately forced into doing. Whether or not the attackers had racist intentions, the system that provided them with victims was racist.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/jul/14/acid-attack-victim-jabed-hussain-delivery-drivers-have-felt-unsafe-for-months

And more. Acid attack threat on a gay Muslim after his wedding made the news:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-40609482

Uncontrolled acid sales are exposing anybody who's put themselves on the line like that to deadly danger. Places that sell that stuff need to get their act together NOW.