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

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

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.