‘I was waving a sword outside Buckingham Palace hoping a cop would kill me’

An Uber driver who attacked police officers with a samurai sword outside Buckingham Palace claimed he did not intend to harm innocent people and was just trying to get himself killed by police. Mohiussunnath Chowdhury, 27, drove his blue Toyota Prius at a marked police van and reached for the blade on 25 August last year, the Old Bailey has heard. He was sprayed with CS gas and arrested after a scuffle with two officers outside the royal residence at…