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Xeneral Webster, 19, has been locked up after he doused Joanne Rand, 47, with sulphuric acid while he was threatening someone else.

But the teen showed no remorse as he was locked up – instead he shouted at the judge: "All of you will probably dead by the time I am out of here, f*** you bro".

Ms Rand, who worked as a dementia nurse, was sitting on a bench in Frogmoor, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, when the teen attempted to steal a bike from another man.

The bottle containing the corrosive liquid was knocked out of his hand during the confrontation and Ms Rand was covered in it.

The mum-of-three, who had been visiting her daughter's grave when she was splashed, ran screaming into a nearby branch of KFC for help, Reading Crown Court heard.

She died 11 days later from multi-organ failure after contracting septicaemia due to the acid burns.

(Image: PA)

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Ms Rand's family is now calling for much harsher sentences for acid attackers.

Her daughter, Katie Pitwell, 18, said: "I think the buying of acid needs to be restricted, but also, if someone is carrying it, there should be tougher sentences because most of the time they do intend to use it for harm."

Webster, who admitted manslaughter while on trial for murder, had himself been a victim of an acid attack only months earlier, so new how dangerous it is.

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Miss Pitwell added: "He knew how much it could hurt someone and yet he used the stronger acid anyway to hurt someone else.

"He went out with the intention of hurting someone and it's an innocent person that got hurt in this situation.

"People need to know that, if they're carrying that type of stuff, it's going to hurt someone or kill someone."

Miss Pitwell joined two of her mum's sisters, Lynn Ryan, 54, and Jacqueline Joiner, 61, to speak out about the dangers of using acid as a weapon.

They described Ms Rand as "very bubbly and fun" and "outgoing" and said she "really cared about the residents she looked after".

Miss Pitwell said she did not realise how badly her mother had been injured at first.

"You never really think of that sort of thing happening to you, so it didn't really register how bad it was," she said.

"Then, as it went on, we realised how bad it was."

Mrs Joiner continued: "I think it was a mixture of anger at first – how could somebody do this to Jo, our sister? It was kind of upsetting for her what she was going through. The disbelief, shock.

"But we've kind of been sleepwalking through our lives for the past year, not thinking of it as real.

"It's like a nightmare and you just can't get your head around it – why it's happened and what happened to Jo."