Accused cop stabber in court

A man accused of stabbing a police officer in the head with a machete during a routine traffic stop has denied attempted murder. Muhammad Rodwan, 56, is said to have attacked PC Stuart Outten after being pulled over in his van on Leyton High Road shortly after midnight on 8 August. He inflicted a number of horrific wounds to his scalp and fingers after repeatedly slashed at the officer with a foot-long machete, it is claimed. PC Outten, who has…