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Marcus Arduini Monzo appeared successful a London tribunal coming aft being charged pinch sidesplitting 14-year-old Daniel Anjorin, pictured here, and injuring 4 different group pinch a samurai sword. Photo courtesy Metropolitan Police
May 2 (UPI) -- A 36-year-old London-based man made an first quality successful tribunal connected Thursday aft being suspected of sidesplitting a 14-year-old boy pinch a beard earlier this week while injuring respective others.
Marcus Arduini Monzo, of dual Spanish-Brazilian nationality, confirmed his name astatine Westminster Magistrates' Court and was remanded successful custody.
Chief Magistrate Paul Goldspring scheduled his adjacent quality for May 7 astatine nan Old Bailey unless a proceeding is disposable connected Friday.
Along pinch a execution count, Monzo has besides been charged pinch 2 counts of attempted murder, 2 counts of causing grievous bodily harm, aggravated burglary and possession of a bladed article successful nan onslaught successful which 14-year-old Daniel Anjorin was killed and 4 different group including 2 constabulary officers were earnestly injured.
Prosecutors said Morzo collapsed a van into a fence successful Laing Close connected Tuesday morning, striking a personification earlier getting retired of nan vehicle, saying he would termination nan man and slashing his cervix pinch a samurai sword.
He past collapsed into nan chamber of a adjacent location and attacked a man who was successful furniture pinch his family including a 4-year-old child, they said.
Prosecutors said this was erstwhile he attacked Anjorin, who was stepping to school.
He past hid down a bush but emerged erstwhile officers tried to thief nan boy, attacking them and leaving a female agency pinch "horrifically serious" wounds connected her arm.
Students and unit astatine nan Bancroft School successful Woodford Green, wherever Anjorin attended classes, said they were crushed by nan loss, calling him a "true scholar" and "an astonishing young man."
Authorities said they responded to nan telephone of a conveyance clang Tuesday greeting successful Hainault successful East London initially, wherever witnesses said a man sewage retired of a car and started stabbing group pinch a agelong sword.
In all, 5 group needed aesculapian attraction astatine hospitals aft nan attack, including Anjorin who died soon aft arriving to a aesculapian facility.
