During the proceedings at the Old Bailey involving the individual charged with the murder of schoolboy Daniel Anjorin, jurors witnessed a police officer break down in tears as she recounted the harrowing experience of being assaulted by a man wielding a sword.

Marcus Monzo, aged 37, is contesting the accusations of murdering the 14-year-old and attempting to kill four more individuals during a violent 20-minute spree in Hainault, north-east London, which took place in April of the previous year.

In a recorded interview played in court, PC Yasmin Mechet-Whitfield addressed a fellow officer, saying, “Please don’t let me die here. I genuinely believed I was going to perish on that street; I feared he would return to finish what he started.”

She narrated how, upon reaching the scene, she pursued Mr. Monzo, who was armed with a sword, as he fled down an alley.

**Warning: This narrative contains distressing details.**

The court learned that she was in front of her partner officer, PC Cameron King, as he was equipped with a Taser.

Overcome with emotion, PC Mechet-Whitfield recalled, “I was yelling ‘police officer with a Taser’ and that’s when he suddenly leapt in front of me. I have no idea where he emerged from.”

According to the testimony, she was struck four times with the sword as she fell to the ground.

“I thought he had just smashed my head open and then he hit me again, and that’s when I felt all the blood,” she recounted, noting that PC King was urgently broadcasting, “Yas has been stabbed.”

She remembered looking at her hand and seeing her bones exposed.

“I was lying in a pool of my own blood. The pain was excruciating, intense, and it escalated very quickly.”

PC King can be heard yelling “officer stabbed, police officer stabbed” in the footage shown to the jury.

Although he was without a Taser and had exhausted his pepper spray, he drew his baton and positioned himself between Mr. Monzo and PC Mechet-Whitfield while she was on the ground.

On the same day, a paramedic who responded to the incident shared her experiences in court.

Stephanie Baisden described the situation as “extremely terrifying” when Mr. Monzo began attacking the ambulance with a sword.

She testified that they spotted Daniel injured in the street, and as she went to retrieve medical supplies from the ambulance, her colleague implored her to “drive, drive.”

Looking out of the window, she saw the suspect wielding “a very large sword, resembling a machete.”

“He attempted to force it into our window,” she stated.

“I could hear it striking the windows and trying to penetrate into the driver’s seat where I was located. It was extremely frightening, and the shouting made it an incredibly stressful situation.”

In a statement to the court, Lachlan Allan, her colleague from the London Ambulance Service, reported that as the defendant aggressively tried to breach the window with his sword, they managed to escape to the end of the road.

Mr. Monzo also faces charges of wounding with intent, aggravated burglary, and possession of an offensive weapon related to a kitchen knife.

He has already admitted to two counts involving offensive weapons, specifically two swords.

The trial is ongoing.