"A man who stabbed an 11-year-old Australian female tourist in a random knife attack in the West End has been sentenced to indefinite detention in a high security mental hospital by a judge at the Old Bailey Ioan Pintaru, 33, attacked the Australian tourist, who is now 13, as she visited Leicester Square with her mother on 12 August 2024. The Romanian national pleaded guilty in October to wounding with intent to do grievous bodily harm, and possession of a knife."
"He previously denied a charge of manslaughter and prosecutors decided not to pursue a trial as his psychosis at the time of the attack meant it could not be proven that he had an intent to kill. At the sentencing hearing, the court heard that the victim, who was on holiday with her mother, thought she was going to die."
Ioan Pintaru, 33, stabbed an 11-year-old Australian tourist in Leicester Square on 12 August 2024 while she was visiting with her mother. The girl, now 13, was put in a headlock and stabbed "furiously and repeatedly" as she left a Lego shop and feared she was going to die. Pintaru pleaded guilty to wounding with intent to do grievous bodily harm and possession of a knife and denied manslaughter. Prosecutors did not pursue a manslaughter trial because his psychosis at the time made intent to kill unprovable. A judge at the Old Bailey ordered indefinite detention in a high-security psychiatric hospital.
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