Hainault: 14-year-old boy confirmed dead in east London sword attack - latest updates

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https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live/2024/apr/30/hainault-london-sword-attack-stabbing-latest-new-updates

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Tue 30 Apr 2024 09.56 EDT

Hainault: 14-year-old boy confirmed dead in east London sword attack – latest updates
36-year-old man arrested and two police officers hospitalised with significant injuries after incident police say was not targeted and not terror-related

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Hainault: Five people taken to hospital and man with sword arrested after east London attack – latest updates

Yohannes Lowe
Tue 30 Apr 2024 06.34 EDT

- A man with a sword has been arrested after an attack on members of the public and police officers in Hainault, east London, police have said.

- Five people were taken to hospital after the incident, London ambulance service said.

- The Metropolitan police said officers were initially called to reports of a vehicle being driven into a house in Thurlow Gardens.

- The force said there were reports of people being stabbed during the incident and the suspect is understood to have gone on to attack other members of the public and two police officers.

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1. pic of the suspect

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3. Thank you. nt

[jimfields33]

2. Wow. There are pictures of other men who are being blamed in various media.

Why can’t they wait until the actual person is accurate. It seems this picture is correct. But many media outfits are wrong.

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4. the pic I posted is accurate, here is video conforming that

snapshot:



watch it here: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live/2024/apr/30/hainault-london-sword-attack-stabbing-latest-new-updates

[jimfields33]

6. Thank you. I definitely wasn't questioning you as your

a fellow DR pal. But some stupid media is not being truthful. Although by now maybe they finally got it right.

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7. oh, for sure, I did not take it as criticising me, and yes, there are a shedload of disinfo sites and bollocks out there

[muriel_volestrangler]

8. Religious maniac?

Detectives are urgently investigating why a man armed with a sword went on a 22-minute rampage in east London, killing a 14-year-old boy and wounding four other people in an apparently random attack.
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Eyewitness accounts suggest the 14-year-old was killed after walking past the scene and being swiped at with the sword. Locals tried to save the boy, but he later died from his wounds in hospital.
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“He was wielding his sword trying to attack the police but then they sprayed him and he ran away,” she said. “He was shouting at the police: ‘Do you believe in God?’, also at the ambulance.”

In another video the suspect is heard and seen saying “Is there anybody here who believes in God?” while standing next to a wounded person.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/apr/30/detectives-urgently-investigating-what-led-to-mans-sword-rampage

Or I suppose that could be an atheist maniac looking for a victim ...

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9. It does sound like it. Thanks for the update. nt

[muriel_volestrangler]

10. In a horrible coincidence, he went to the same school as a university student stabbed to death last year

The 14-year-old boy killed in the sword attack in north-east London attended the same school as one of the victims of the 2023 Nottingham attacks, the Guardian understands.

The teenager, understood to be Daniel Anjorin, was a student at the private Bancroft’s school in Woodford Green, which is still reeling from losing one of its alumni, Grace O’Malley-Kumar, who was stabbed to death in Nottingham in June 2023. The school is to issue a statement later on Wednesday.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/may/01/hainault-sword-attack-police-officer-almost-lost-hand-met-police-chief

Also:

Rowley told LBC radio: “I saw the [male] inspector whose hand is badly damaged. I saw him before the operation, and he was in good spirits. I think that was partly the morphine, to be honest.

“But he’s got a lot of patching up to be done on his hand. Really serious injuries there.

“And I was talking to the family and colleagues of the woman officer who’s really badly damaged [her] arm, really seriously damaged and the surgeon spent … many, many hours basically putting her arm back together. It will be a long journey of recovery.”

There was concern on Tuesday that the female officer had sustained injuries so severe she might lose her hand.