Hainault sword suspect ‘decapitated’ 14-year-old Daniel Anjorin, courtroom hears
Marcus Monzo, 36, allegedly killed 14-year-old Daniel Anjorin in Hainault, northeast London by “decapitating” him, a court has heard.
In a 15-minute attack, Daniel Anjorin lost his life shortly after leaving home to head to school. Suspect Monzo was charged with murder last Thursday and appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court in London. The Spanish-Brazilian, who also lives in east London, in Newham was after a seven-minute hearing remanded in custody.
He also faces charges of two counts of attempted murder, two counts of grievous bodily harm, one count of aggravated burglary and one of possession of a bladed article.
Prosecutor Tom Little, KC, said: “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.”
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