Katie’s acid attacker goes free ... and takes wife for luxury break
STRICTLY Come Dancing star Katie Piper’s acid attacker celebrated his first weekend out of jail by whisking his new wife off for a romantic weekend at a luxury hotel.
Stefan Sylvestre, 30, was released on Wednesday after serving nine years for the crime which left Miss Piper permanently scarred.
He took mother of one Danielle Burke to the £100-a-night Angel Hotel in Guildford, Surrey.
While Miss Piper bravely shook off news her attacker had been freed by dancing the jive on Strictly, Sylvestre and his wife were ordering burgers and chips to their room.
The couple, who wed at Highpoint Jail in Suffolk earlier this year, kept a low profile. He emerged from their suite only to return to his bail hostel, where he must stay overnight under the terms of his release. When confronted he denied he was Sylvestre, and when told he looked like him, smirked and said: ‘****ing hell, he’s a handsome dude then!’
Sylvestre was jailed in 2009 for the attack he carried out on Miss Piper the previous year on the orders of her obsessive ex-boyfriend Daniel Lynch.
The TV presenter, 35, who was voted off Strictly on Sunday with partner Gorka Marquez, had begged parole board officials not to free Sylvestre.
On Saturday she tweeted: ‘Using meditation to stay calm and centred today.’ A friend of Miss Burke said: ‘She knows all about his past but it doesn’t bother her.’