Arthur Collins victim: It felt like my skin was being eaten alive

Phoebe Georgiou says her scars have left her with a "life sentence"

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One of the people who was hit by acid in a packed London nightclub has been telling Newsbeat about her ordeal.

Phoebe Georgiou says it was "probably one of the worst moments" of her life.

When she and her cousin decided to go out on Easter Sunday, it was a last-minute decision.

The 23-year-old fashion student had celebrated her birthday just a few days before.

The cousins had been in Mangle nightclub in east London for a few hours when Phoebe noticed something wasn't right.

"I looked up and I could literally see thick liquid just flying through the air and it was steaming.

The liquid that had been thrown had a pH level of 1 - indicating it was a strong acid.

It was thrown by Arthur Collins. The ex boyfriend of reality TV star Fearne McCann was found guilty of carrying out the attack at Wood Green Crown Court on Monday.

Phoebe suffered burns to her arm from the acid

"I thought, 'What is this? Is this a terrorist attack? What's happening?'

"I felt liquid drench my entire chest and arm and it burnt through my chest.

"I looked down and it started eating my skin."

Phoebe soaked herself in water when she realised what was happening.

Phoebe's chest was badly burned

"I poured it over my chest and my arm because my skin was eating itself.

"The pain was indescribable really."

Following the attack, her friend drove her to hospital where she immediately underwent treatment for the burns.

"I was in a freezing cold shower for five hours and I was on morphine."

Phoebe had to be transferred to a burns specialist because her injuries were so severe.

Arthur Collins was found guilty of the acid attack on Phoebe Georgiou

"They had to scrape all the broken bits and wash me with a disinfectant. It was probably the worst moment of my life.

"The pain was a joke."

Phoebe, whose face we've agreed not to show, spent the following weeks and months in and out of hospital.

"They had to bandage me up which was like a top - from my breast up to my neck - and a massive bandage down my left arm.

"I've been on loads of painkillers to deal with the pain."

The bandages were on for weeks and had to be changed every two days because of the risk of infections.

"That was the worst feeling.

"Every time they took the bandages off I had to see the damage they had caused."

Phoebe's dressings were changed every two days

Seven months on, Phoebe still wears a pressure garment on her arm to flatten the scars and has to get laser treatment.

It wasn't just the physical pain that Phoebe has had to deal with.

She's been seeing a counsellor twice a week ever since the attack.

"The mental scarring is the worst.

"I'm always thinking, 'When's the next attack?'

"Especially in busy crowds. I've been dealing with really bad anxiety and sleep paralysis ever since. I haven't stepped into a club either.

The attack happened at Mangle nightclub

"I'm a 23-year-old girl, I should be living my life.

"Last year I was going on party holidays but this year I've been glued to my mum."

Phoebe says she's still trying to deal with what happened but is finding it tricky to move on.

"I'm still going through the mental wounds of it.

"I feel angry and I kind of feel scared that there are people out there, like there - in my presence.

"I've been left with a life sentence of scars."

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