Police say Clapham alkali attack suspect may have killed himself - as man, 22 is arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender

The criminal being pursued over the terrible compound assault on a mother and her young little girls might be dead, police say.

Abdul Ezedi, 35, was most recently seen close to a rail line span over the Thames in London last Wednesday - only hours after he purportedly designated the people in question.

Many expert officials are looking for the sentenced sex wrongdoer who tossed a destructive soluble substance at the lady, 31, and her kids, matured eight and three, in Clapham, south London.

Analysts accept he might have committed suicide subsequent to experiencing anguishing facial wounds when the synthetic hit his face. One more hypothesis is that he is being held onto by criminal partners.

Recently, police captured a 22-year-elderly person on doubt of helping a wrongdoer. He was subsequently delivered on bail.

The manhunt entered its fifth day on Monday with a £20,000 compensation set up for anybody with data prompting his capture.

Scratch Aldworth, a previous public counter-psychological warfare co-ordinator, told BBC Radio 4's Today program: 'I suppose in the event that we've not seen or heard from him in the most recent few days, which has all the earmarks of being the situation, he's gone to ground, perhaps upheld by someone... or on the other hand it's not impossible or far-fetched that he might have ended his own life. There is in this manner a body to be tracked down some place.'

Mr Aldworth said the Met would follow Ezedi's developments through open cameras, which had been a 'exceptionally compelling' strategy in past cases.

The power said the last locating of Ezedi, who is from Newcastle, was at 9.33pm at Pinnacle Slope Underground station in east London on January 31, soon after the assault in Clapham.

Inquired as to whether the Met Police would now have an exact area for his whereabouts, he said: 'I think they'll have a generally excellent feeling of what region he's in.

'What you can't limit obviously is that he has been gotten by a partner and moved elsewhere, maybe in a vehicle. The explanation they've offered a £20,000 reward is typically on the grounds that there's a feeling that someone inside the local area likely could be holding onto this person.'

On Sunday, police said the suspect involved a 'extremely impressive gathered destructive substance' in the assault.

Met Officer Jon Savell said agents are keeping a receptive outlook, however added: 'I believe that it's reasonable to comprehend that the way that nobody has seen him recently...would imply that he has either come to damage and he's lying some place... or then again somebody is taking care of him.'

The improvement came as police uncovered that the mother, who is basically sick in medical clinic, may lose the sight in her right eye subsequent to experiencing extreme facial wounds.

Her little girls were likewise harmed yet have since been released from medical clinic.

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Police examiners accept there are individuals who know Ezedi's whereabouts and have not approached.

The Met has cautioned anybody found helping him will confront capture.

It comes as questions have been raised over how the suspect, who was conceded shelter in the UK after two bombed endeavors, had the option to remain in the country notwithstanding being sentenced for a sex offense.

Police said Ezedi left Newcastle in the early long stretches of Wednesday and made a trip south to London and was in the Honking region by around 6.30am.

His vehicle was seen again in Croydon, south London, at around 4.30pm and by around 7pm he was in Streatham.

Ezedi purportedly tossed the more youthful kid to the ground during the assault at 7.25pm, prior to endeavoring to drive away from the scene, colliding with a fixed vehicle and escaping by walking.

Minutes after the fact he boarded a Cylinder train at Clapham South Underground station, and by 8pm he was at Ruler's Cross Cylinder station.

Police say three individuals from the public who came to the guide of the family during Wednesday's assault, two matured in their 30s and one in her 50s, have all been released from emergency clinic with minor consumes.