A 21-year-old hair­dress­er is be­ing treat­ed for chem­i­cal burns af­ter she was at­tacked by two women who doused her with acid, af­ter ac­cus­ing her of so­cial­is­ing with men they knew.

Speak­ing with Guardian Me­dia yes­ter­day, Galia Noel, the aunt of Jessie James, con­firmed her niece was con­tact­ed by one of the women who asked for an ap­point­ment to style her hair in Bel­mont.

James was re­port­ed­ly met by a woman on Wednes­day, who iden­ti­fied her­self as a rel­a­tive of the per­son mak­ing the ap­point­ment, and tak­en to a track where she was con­front­ed.

Dur­ing the al­ter­ca­tion, the women ac­cused James of speak­ing with men they knew and threw two steam­ing cups con­tain­ing an un­known liq­uid on her. They then ran off.

Noel said she was told by her niece that she screamed for help and was as­sist­ed by two women who took her to the Port-of-Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal where she re­mained up to yes­ter­day.

Noel said she was deeply hurt by the in­ci­dent, de­scrib­ing her niece as a “gen­tle, soft soul” who did not de­serve such vi­o­lence.

“The two eyes were af­fect­ed as well as her lip and the soft­er parts of her face.

“Her two eyes are bruised on the out­side, she can’t open it for too long, but when she does you can see how the eyes are bulging, they are both very red.

“She can see in one eye but it’s a bit fuzzy, but she can’t see through the oth­er one at all.”

Noel said she was deeply dis­ap­point­ed that women would per­pe­trate such a vi­cious at­tack on an­oth­er woman.

“Who­ev­er did this is a hyp­ocrite be­cause they’re try­ing to dam­age an­oth­er woman.

“Even if what­ev­er they ac­cused her of is true, they didn’t de­cide to have a civilised con­ver­sa­tion, they at­tacked her in the most grue­some way be­cause this could have been worse.”

Noel said po­lice took a state­ment from her on Thurs­day af­ter­noon.