Bleach attack: Hull teenager Rebecca Morris jailed for 27 months for throwing acid into face of model Vicky Smith

The victim, Victoria Smith, tried to kill herself two months after the attack

Victim Victoria Smith

A teenager who threw bleach into face of a young model has been sentenced to 27 months in a young offender’s institution.

Rebecca Morris, 18, from Hull, followed 17-year-old Vicky Smith from a house party in Hull before throwing bleach into her eyes, mouth and hair in August 2014, leaving her temporarily blinded.

Victoria Smith models under the name Toria Melody

The attack led Ms Smith with permanent damage to her eyesight and she now wears a wig because of the effect on her hair. She tried to kill herself two months later.

Miss Smith went to Hull Royal Infirmary on October 21 last year after taking an overdose.

Prosecutor Stephen Welch said there had been “ill-feeling” between the two and that Morris believed that Ms Smith had been involved in her exclusion from their school, Hull College.

Throwing the bleach, Smith shouted: “There's your shot of bleach instead of your shot of vodka. That's for getting me kicked out of college,” the court heard.

Ms Smith was taken to hospital, where she was given eye drops. Her hair turned green and she suffered burns to her scalp.

She was saved from more serious harm by the quick actions of her friend who washed her eyes with a soft drink.

Ms Smith, who goes by the modelling name of Toria Melody, feels unable to model any more because she has lost her “confidence and self-esteem” and has stopped going to college because she is “frightened and scared” of being bullied, Mr Welch said.

Morris, who has one previous conviction for common assault, has admitted throwing a corrosive liquid with the intent to burn, maim, disfigure or disable or do some grievous bodily harm.