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Newcastle man's eye saved with help of placenta

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Paul Laskey , 43 , was squirted with acid when his son was mugged at knifepoint in Newcastle .
He suffered severe chemical burns to his eye, melting both the inner and outer layers of his cornea.
He had two emergency corneal transplants and three amnion grafts, where tissue from the inner lining of a donated placenta was used to save his eye.
The man responsible for the attack was jailed in 2024 .