Machete attack trial collapses

A Tube passenger accused of trying to murder a complete stranger with a machete is facing a retrial after the jury was discharged. Ricky Morgan, 34, allegedly slashed James Porritt, in his 30s, on the Jubilee Line between Green Park and Bond Street on 9 July last year. Jurors heard Morgan swung a machete and cut Mr Porritt on the head, the right hand and the shin, exposing his skull, shin bone and cutting his hand into ‘pieces’. Grace Ong,…