Father describes finding son in pool of blood as Hainault attacker jailed for 38 years.

A father has recalled the moment he found his son lying in a pool of blood after he was murdered with a samurai sword in an unprovoked attack, as his killer was jailed for at least 38 years.

- AMY-CLARE MARTIN CRIME CORRESPONDENT

Kind and thoughtful Daniel Anjorin, 14, was walking to school in his PE kit when he was ambushed by Marcus Arduini Monzo during a 20-minute rampage in Hainault, east London.

The 37-year-old killer was high on cannabis and in a drug-fuelled psychosis during the spree, which also left five people wounded.

Wearing a green jumper and grey prison-issue tracksuit, Monzo stared straight ahead as he was sentenced to life in prison. Less time already served on remand, he will serve a minimum of 38 years and 309 days before he is eligible for parole.

Judge Mr Justice Bennathan told Monzo that the peaceful, busy scene as people left for work and school on the morning of 30 April last year was "devastated" by his actions after he arrived in a "clearly psychotic state".

"Members of the public were attacked, police officers were gravely injured, a couple were terrified in their own home, and a clever, talented, much-loved young boy was killed by a savage blow with a sword," he said. "You, Marcos Arduini Monzo, did all of that."

Daniel's father, Dr Ebenezer Anjorin, told the Old Bailey yesterday that the talented schoolboy set off at 7am, but within 15 minutes he was told by his eldest son that Daniel had been stabbed near their home.

"I ran outside of the house and just across the road I saw a hunched-up body by the side on the road," he recalled in a victim personal statement read to the court by prosecutor Tom Little KC. "I did not realise that it was Daniel at first, but as I got closer, I recognised the school sports clothes and saw his face."

He was "lying in a pool blood" and had a "deep cut" to the side of his face. "He was motionless," the father said. "I knew at once he was dead. I reached out and called his name and held his head."