A guy has denied using two Japanese swords to kill a 14-year-old boy and assault four other people during a purported 20-minute outburst.
In Hainault, north-east London, on April 30 of last year, Marcus Arduini Monzo is charged with coming up behind Daniel Anjorin as he was walking to school and cutting him in the neck and chest, thereby decapitating him.
The event also injured four other people, including a brave female police officer who nearly lost a hand.
Monzo, a 37-year-old dual Spanish-Brazilian national, acknowledged two counts of possessing an offensive weapon a katana sword and a tanto katana sword—but disputed eight of the ten allegations against him.
Wearing a green jumper, the bearded defendant, who hails from Newham, east London, entered his pleas on Friday at the Old Bailey.
