Overview
- Old Bailey judge Richard Marks KC ordered Ioan Pintaru detained under a Section 37 hospital order with a Section 41 restriction, allowing indefinite detention.
- Security guard Abdullah Tanoli was formally commended for disarming the knifeman and was awarded £1,000 from public funds.
- The victim, an Australian tourist who was 11 at the time and is now 13, was stabbed eight times after leaving the Lego store in Leicester Square.
- Bystanders helped stop the attack and tend to wounds, including two men who helped restrain the assailant and an off-duty nurse who stemmed bleeding.
- Court reporting noted psychiatric evidence that Pintaru experienced psychosis during the assault and had a prior psychiatric admission in Romania after stopping medication.