UK-Based Man Accused Of Killing Minor With Samurai Swords Pleads Not Guilty

The man, Marcus Arduini Monzo, accused of murdering 14-year-old Daniel Anjorin and attacking four others with two Japanese swords, has denied the allegation. Monzo is said to have attacked Anjorin on his way to school, slashing him with the swords on his chest and neck in Hainault, north-east London. Four others were also injured, including a police officer who almost lost her hand in the 20-minute incident on April 30, 2024. Anjorin couldn’t survive the injuries he sustained as a result for he attack as he succumbed on getting to the hospital. 10 charges were levelled against Monzo, who denied eight of them. He, however, admitted to two counts of having an offensive weapon identified as a katana sword and a tanto katana sword. The 37-year-old dual Spanish-Brazilian national entered his pleas when he appeared at the Old Bailey on Friday wearing a green jumper. His trial is set for June 3 at the same court. Prosecutor Tom Little, KC, was quoted by Daily Mail as saying: “This case related to a period of about 20 minutes or so relatively early in the morning of 30 April. “None of those who were attacked by the defendant knew the defendant in advance. “There are in reality five separate incidents, the first an attempted murder involving the use of the defendant’s van to strike the victim, being deliberately driven at. “He was sent a significant distance into some gardens. The defendant then got out of van with a sword, the victim of that matter says ‘I don’t know you’ and the defendant says ‘I don’t care I will kill you’ and in the process was attacked with a sword. “He manages to escape, and shortly after that Daniel was walking to school when attacked by the defendant from behind with the use of a sword to the neck and head, very largely essentially decapitating the 14-year-old boy. “Police attended and tried to stop the defendant, who then attacks one with a sword causing very significant injuries to her again. “The defendant then makes his way across a number of gardens before entering the property and goes into the bedroom where the occupant, his wife and a four-year-old baby were present. “The male in that bedroom gets attacked and in seeking to defend his partners sustained significant injuries with use of the sword.” Anjorin was born to a church-going Nigerian family and attended £25,000-a-year Bancroft’s School in nearby Woodford Green, the private school attended by Nottingham rampage victim Grace O’Malley-Kumar. His mother, Grace Anjorin, 49, is a science teacher, and his father, Dr Ebenezer Anjorin, 59, works as a health and safety consultant.