Accused machete chopper says he wore latex gloves ‘because my mum’s strict about Covid’

A teenager accused of machete chopping a rival’s arm with a machete claimed he wore latex gloves that day because his mum was ‘strict’ about Covid. Ruben Darame, 18, shouted ‘help, help, I’ve been stabbed’ at an arriving ambulance minutes after Daniel Obidi was seriously injured with a machete-type knife in Kennington, south London on 14 June last year. A vicious knife fight between two teens in broad daylight on a residential street was captured from multiple angles on CCTV,…