Leicester Square attacker Ioan Pintaru ‘put an eleven year old tourist in a headlock to stab her eight times’

A Romanian man tried to kill an 11-year-old girl in Leicester Square by holding her in a headlock and stabbing her eight times, a court heard. Ioan Pintaru, 32, appeared at Westminster magistrates court charged with attempted murder and possession of a bladed article in a public place. Police were called at 11:34am on Monday to reports of an attack after members of the public tacked Pintaru. The girl, who was visiting the UK with her mother, suffered multiple stab…