A dual Spanish-Brazilian national charged with murdering a 14-year-old boy in north-east London “largely decapitated” his victim during the sword attack, a court has heard.
Marcus Arduini Monzo, 36, allegedly attacked 14-year-old Daniel Anjorin as he walked to school on 30 April by running up behind him and slashing his neck and chest with a samurai sword.
The teenager, who was a pupil at a local independent school, died as a result of “sharp force trauma” to the head and was “largely decapitated” in the attack, the court heard.
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Four other people – including two police officers – were seriously injured in separate attacks, all within 20 minutes.
Outlining the case, Tom Little KC said the charges facing the defendant covered a period of around 20 minutes and began when a van was deliberately driven at a member of the public who was knocked into a garden, the Daily Telegraph reports. He went on:
The defendant then gets out of the van with a sword. The victim says ‘I don’t know you’, the defendant says ‘I don’t care, I will kill you’ and then attacks him with the sword.
Shortly after that Daniel Anjorin is walking to school and he is attacked from behind with the use of a sword to the neck and head, largely decapitating the 14-year-old boy.
Little explained the defendant was then accused of attacking a paramedic before breaking into the home of a stranger and attacking a man in his bedroom in front of his wife and baby.
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Monzo is further accused of attacking two police officers before he was Tasered and arrested.
He is next due before the Old Bailey for a plea hearing on July 23.
A trial is set to begin in February.
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