Name released of 14-year-old boy slain in sword attack on his route to school

01 May 2024 , 13:18

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The 14-year-old boy stabbed to death with a sword in a terrifying unprovoked attack in Hainault went to same school as Nottingham stabbing victim Grace O’Malley Kumar.

The boy, understood to be Daniel Anjorin, was killed near Hainault Tube station yesterday morning after a man crashed his van and stabbed five people in an untargeted attack.

He attended private school Bancroft’s in Woodford Green, where Ms O’Malley-Kumar, who was stabbed to death in June, was a former student.

The school’s flag is flying at half mast today.

The Metropolitan Police confirmed the schoolboy was unknown to the attacker.

A science teacher at the Holy Family Catholic School in Waltham has been confirmed to be the mum of the boy.

In a letter to parents, the school said Mrs Anjorin’s son was ‘taken from this life suddenly’ on his way to school.

The statement read: ‘Dear Parents/Carers, It is with great sadness that I share with you the news of the death of the child of one of our staff members.

‘Mrs Anjorin’s son was taken from this life suddenly this morning on his way to school.

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He attended private school Bancroft’s in Woodford Green (Picture: Alamy Stock Photo)

The suspect can be seen wielding a sword outside people’s homes

‘Please keep Mrs Anjorin, her husband and their other children in your prayers. Eternal rest grant unto him O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon him. May he rest in peace. Amen.’

Ms O’Malley-Kumar’s parents, said on Good Morning Britain, they hope to offer their support to the boy’s family.

Her father Dr Sanjoy Kumar said: ‘You can’t even imagine what the parents are going through. It’s the most difficult thing for the parents to endure. We’ve been enduring this for many months now.

‘I can tell you that the distraught the family are feeling is only felt by a few like us that have lost children in these absolutely appalling circumstances.’

Four other victims, including two police officers, remain in hospital but their conditions are not believed to be life-threatening.

A 36-year-old man remains in hospital after he was arrested 22 minutes following the first 999 call.

Officers have not yet been able to interview him due to his injuries.

Neighbour James Fernando, who witnesses the attack, recalled the moment Daniel, was killed.

He said the suspect has asked one of his neighbours to ‘take the telephone from him to tell whoever was on the phone his location’.

He added: ‘Within two seconds after that she’s realised something isn’t right, started running and he’s pulled a samurai sword from the back of his trouser.

Second Nottingham student victim named as hockey player Grace Kumar. TRIBUTES were today paid to two sport-loving university students stabbed to death during a knife and van rampage in Nottingham. Hockey player Grace O?Malley-Kumar, from north-east London, and cricketer Barnaby Webber, both 19, were attacked by a black-clad knifeman 300 yards from their halls.

He attended the same school as Grace O’Malley-Kumar

‘She’s shouted to the other neighbour – a Nigerian boy who was on his way to school.

‘It’s quite traumatising now. I can’t stop envisioning the boy’s face.’

Footage shows police approaching him as he brandishes his weapon, before Tasering and arresting him.

In an update yesterday, Chief Superintendent Stuart Bell said: ‘It is with great sadness that I confirm one of those injured in the incident, a 14-year-old boy, has died from their injuries.

‘He was taken to hospital after being stabbed and sadly died a short while after. The child’s family are being supported firstly by my local officers and now with some specialist officers.’

Witnesses have described the moment they saw a man armed with a huge sword walking from house to house.

Footage from a doorbell camera of police officers tasering the man (Picture: Jordan Pettitt/PA Wire)

Manpreet Singh, manager of Redbridge Radio Cars, was at work in the taxi firm’s office at Hainault Tube station when the attack began.

Mr Singh told Metro: ‘I saw about six or seven people going in and out of Franklyn Gardens and people coming up to the train station saying there was a guy with a machete.

‘It looked like there was one man who had stabbed someone and the other people in the street were bystanders on their way to work who had tried to fight him off.

‘A guy walked up the road who had been stabbed in his neck. He was saying “I’ve been stabbed, I’ve been stabbed” and walking towards the police.’

He continued: ‘Because of the size of the weapon it looked like they tried to intervene but not been able to fight him off.

‘When we came out the police cars were there and the guy came running from Franklyn Gardens towards Thurlow Gardens. He tried to get into a house but there was a dog there.

The scene of a sword attack (Picture: Carl Court/Getty Images)