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Metropolitan Police release body cam footage from the arrest of Ioan Pintaru as he is detained indefinitely after repeatedly stabbing an 11-year-old Australian girl in Leicester Square. The Australian child, who cannot be named for legal reasons, told police she thought she was going to die after she was targeted by Ioan Pintaru in London’s West End on the morning of August 12 last year while on holiday with her mother. The defendant, 33, approached the girl as she left the Lego store at around