BREAKING: Hainault Samurai sword killer guilty of murdering schoolboy in street rampage

A drug-crazed samurai sword killer has been found guilty of murdering 14-year-old schoolboy Daniel Anjorin during a 20-minute rampage.

Marcus Arduini Monzo, 37, killed, skinned and deboned his pet cat Wizard before he launched the spree of violence in Hainault , north-east London, on April 30 last year, the court has heard. During the rampage, he virtually decapitated Daniel and attacked a pedestrian, two police officers and a couple in their own home, jurors heard.

Afterwards, he likened events to Hollywood movie The Hunger Games and claimed to have an alternative personality of a "professional assassin".

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Monzo denied Daniel's murder, and the attempted murders of Donato Iwule, Sindy Arias, Henry De Los Rios Polania and Pc Yasmin Margaret Mechem-Whitfield, as well as wounding Inspector Moloy Campbell with intent.

He also denied aggravated burglary and possession of a bladed article relating to a kitchen knife. Monzo previously admitted two counts of having an offensive weapon, namely two swords.

Today he was cleared of one count of attempted murder - instead found guilty of intending grievous harm - but found guilty of all other charges following a trial at the Old Bailey.

Opening the case, prosecutor Tom Little, KC, told the jury: "Daniel Anjorin is the boy that was murdered. He was just 14. He had left home and was simply walking to school, minding his own business, looking forward to the day ahead when he was killed.

"His life was snuffed out in an instant. In fact most accurately he was slain by the defendant with the use of a sword."

Mr Little told the jury that the first victim, Donato Iwule, was walking along a pavement at 6.51am when Monzo rammed him, "catapulting" him into a garden. CCTV from a Ring doorbell captured Mr Iwule shouting: "I don't know you", to which Monzo chillingly replied: "I don't care, I will kill you."

Mr Iwule managed to scramble to his feet and run away despite having also been stabbed in the neck with the 23-inch blade.

Daniel was the next victim, slashed in the neck just as police arrived at the scene, the court heard.

PC Yasmin Mechem-Whitfield chased Monzo but was slashed three times.

He then burst into a house and attacked a couple sleeping upstairs next to their four-year-old daughter. He only stopped when the girl awoke crying. Officers tasered Monzo, of Newham, East London, to arrest him.

He did not deny carrying out the attacks but claimed he was suffering from a mental disorder and "psychotic episodes".

Mr Little said it was a "clear case of murder" and four attempted murders sparked by Monzo using cannabis.