London court finds sword-wielding man guilty of killing Nigerian teen
Marcus Aurelio Arduini-Monzo, a 37-year-inclined Spanish-Brazilian man, has been stumbled on responsible of murdering 14-year-inclined Nigerian schoolboy Daniel Anjorin throughout a violent rampage in northeast London on April 30, 2024.
The jury at London’s Central Felony Courtroom convicted Arduini-Monzo on Wednesday of abolish, three counts of attempted abolish, one count of mistaken bodily hurt, aggravated housebreaking, and possession of a bladed article.
Anjorin, the youngest limited certainly one of a Nigerian household residing in Hainault, develop into once walking dwelling from faculty factual 14 metres from his front door when he develop into once ambushed and fatally attacked with a 2-foot (60 cm) samurai sword. He develop into once wearing headphones and didn't hear the warnings of neighbours, witnesses told the courtroom.
The post-mortem confirmed Anjorin died of attractive force trauma to the top. Prosecutors stated Arduini-Monzo almost decapitated the newborn sooner than stabbing him quite lots of events.
The incident fashioned part of a unprecedented wider 20-minute assault by which Arduini-Monzo injured four others, at the side of Constable Yasmin Mechem-Whitfield, who sustained life-altering accidents while attempting to subdue him. She suffered a fractured cranium and excessive nerve hurt.
He moreover broke proper into a nearby dwelling, attacking a individual in front of his wife and 4-year-inclined daughter, and later struck a police inspector sooner than being tasered and arrested.
The courtroom heard that Arduini-Monzo, a light Amazon offer driver, develop into once below a hashish-resulted in psychosis at the time of the assault. He admitted to proudly owning the 2 swords broken-down within the assault but denied intent to abolish, claiming he intended to level to them.
For the length of the trial, the jury develop into once shown bodycam photos and CCTV recordings of the assault. Arduini-Monzo made quite lots of extraordinary claims, at the side of believing the Earth is flat and 9/11 develop into once a conspiracy. He admitted killing his cat below the impact of hallucinogens and stated a articulate told him to eat it to regain vitality.
Prosecutors argued that Monzo’s psychosis develop into once drug-resulted in, not attributable to a scientific situation, making him fully in management of his actions.
Kirsty O’Connor of the Crown Prosecution Service stated: “The jury, by their unequivocal verdicts, have licensed the prosecution case. Our hearts exit to Daniel Anjorin’s household and pals, who've suffered his impossible loss in horrific cases.”
Daniel’s fogeys attended the trial and have expressed their devastation, struggling to reach to phrases with their son’s loss of life.
Arduini-Monzo is attributable to be sentenced on Friday.
