Ioan Pintaru in court accused of stabbing 11-year-old in the head

A homeless Romanian man has appeared in court accused of picking an 11-year-old Australian tourist at random in Leicester Square to try and stab her to death. Ioan Pintaru, 33, put the Australian tourist in a headlock and stabbed her eight times, the Old Bailey heard. The girl was in the UK on a dream trip with her mother to see Taylor Swift perform at Wembley. He appeared at the Old Bailey today (fri) on his 33rd birthday charged with…

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