A Lowestoft beautician disfigured in an acid attack orchestrated by her controlling ex-boyfriend has called for new laws and restrictions to prevent the rising number of attacks.

Adele Bellis, 23, lost an ear, was left partially bald and has permanent scarring following the sulphuric acid attack at a bus stop in her home town of Lowestoft, on August 14 last year.

It was the culmination of a six-month campaign by her former partner of seven years, Anthony Riley, 26. Five months earlier she was stabbed in the face by one of his friends.

A trial at Ipswich Crown Court heard that, fuelled by jealousy, Riley had become determined to control and disfigure Miss Bellis and recruited three men to help.

Riley, 26, of Raglan Street, Lowestoft, who appeared by video link from prison, was jailed for a minimum of 13 years of a life term for offences including conspiracy to apply a corrosive liquid at a sentencing hearing yesterday.

Speaking outside court, Miss Bellis said: 'I believe that anyone who plans, or uses, acid to attack someone should automatically get a life sentence because, for us as survivors, it is something we have to live with for the rest of our lives.'

Judge John Devaux said Riley decided that, if Miss Bellis did not want him, he would make sure no other man would want her.

Concluding that Riley presented an ongoing danger to the public, he added: 'Her injuries were appalling.'

Leon Thompson, 39, from Lowestoft, carried out the knife attack; Daniel Marshall, 39, from Haverhill, acted as his 'enforcer'; and Jason Harrison, 27, from Lowestoft, carried out the acid attack, saying he was forced into it. Thompson will serve an extended sentence of 15 years and Marshall will serve seven years for their parts in the assault. Harrison was sentenced to four years and four months.