5 h. ago Romanian man who stabbed girl, 11, eight times in random Leicester Square attack is detained indefinitely after court hears security guard saved her life

Romanian Ioan Pintaru, 33, grabbed the girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, and stabbed her eight times in face, neck and chest with a large kitchen knife as she left the Lego store last year.

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9 h. ago Leicester Square stabbing saw mum watch daughter, 11, 'being killed in front of her'

The man who stabbed an 11-year-old girl from Australia in Leicester Square, in a random attack that the mother describes the attack as a “wide-eyed and manic, has been sentenced

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10 h. ago Leicester Square knifeman detained indefinitely for repeatedly stabbing girl, 11

The Australian child was on holiday with her mother when she was targeted by Ioan Pintaru in London’s West End on the morning of August 12 last year.

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10 h. ago Girl, 11, 'thought she would die' in Leicester Square knife attack, court hears as knifeman is locked up

Ioan Pintaru stabbed the girl ‘furiously’ with a knife in Leicester Square

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11 h. ago Girl repeatedly stabbed in Leicester Square ‘thought she was going to die’

The Australian child was on holiday with her mother when she was targeted by Ioan Pintaru in London’s West End on the morning of August 12 last year.

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12 h. ago Girl, 11, 'thought she would die' in Leicester Square knife attack, court hears as knifeman is sentenced

Ioan Pintaru stabbed the girl ‘furiously’ with a knife in Leicester Square

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2 w. ago Huntingdon train knife attack suspect fails to appear in court to set trial date

Anthony Williams is facing charges over a mass stabbing on an LNER train from Doncaster to London

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3 w. ago Chinese student was fatally stabbed as she 'tried to attack boyfriend with a knife' after wrongly believing she had contracted an STI from him, court hears

An American student has described how he fatally stabbed a 'demented' lover after she came at him with a knife and had a 'wicked look in her eye'.

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