Michael Anthony Laoe, who cops believe had a hand in planning a June 10 acid attack on his wife that left her with burns over 40 per cent of her body and her attacker dead, will face the court on Wednesday.

He has been charged with conspiracy, as well as aiding and abetting grievous bodily harm. The police said he was arrested on Friday after being handed over to cops at about 6:00 pm.

The police did not say who brought in Laoe, a 40-year-old battery technician who lives at 160 Spanish Town Road, Kingston 11.

Cops had issued a bulletin with his picture, on June 16, saying he had been implicated in the attack on his wife and was wanted for questioning.

Laoe’s wife, whose name has not been released, was doused with a pail of acid at about 8:30 am on June 10, seconds after she got off a bus on Constant Spring Road. She was attacked from behind as she moved towards the entrance of the St Andrew tax collectorate where she works.

The 29-year-old woman, who is originally from Buff Bay in Portland, was badly burnt and pieces of her flesh could be seen melted into her brassiere on the morning of the attack.

She has had two operations since the attack and is still hospitalised, according to Sunday Observer sources.

“The whole of her clothes melt way and a pure flesh you see,” said one man who claimed to be an eyewitness. “Some of the acid catch the boy (attacker) and him run off and the people start chase him.”

The man who wielded the red pail of corrosive liquid was chopped and stoned to death at Honey Hill, along Constant Spring Grove.

At the time of the incident, some persons at the scene blamed the police who they claim failed to respond to frequent calls that two men were seen lurking around the front of the building and speaking on cellular phones.

“Them call the police and tell them say two man out there acting suspiciously. No police don’t turn up. Even when them a run down the man they were calling 119; no answer,” a man said. “Them arrive on the scene when the woman burn up and the man dead.”

The June 10 incident caused the Constant Spring tax collectorate to close down operations for a day, and moved some of the burnt woman’s colleagues to tears.