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Ellie Ng

Girl repeatedly stabbed in Leicester Square ‘thought she was going to die’

Ioan Pintaru is due to be sentenced for repeatedly stabbing an 11-year-old girl (Elizabeth Cook/PA) - (PA Archive)

A girl who was stabbed “furiously and repeatedly” in a random knife attack in Leicester Square thought she was going to die, a court has heard.

The Australian child, who was 11 years old at the time, was on holiday with her mother when she was targeted by Ioan Pintaru in London’s West End on the morning of August 12 last year.

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