{"id":309209,"date":"2025-10-30T11:13:46","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T01:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=309209"},"modified":"2025-10-30T11:13:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T01:13:50","slug":"romanian-who-stabbed-aussie-girl-11-in-london-has-murder-charge-dropped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=309209","title":{"rendered":"Romanian who stabbed Aussie girl, 11, in London has murder charge dropped"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A homeless Romanian<\/a> who stabbed an 11-year-old Australian girl eight times in the centre of London<\/a> has had his attempted murder charge dropped on mental health grounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The young girl, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, was leaving a Lego store in Leicester Square with her mother while on holiday on August 12 last year when Ioan-Alexandru Pintaru, 33, put her in a headlock and stabbed her all over her body.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Prosecutors said he had a psychotic condition so it could not be proven that he “intended to kill”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":309210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,921,85],"tags":[5364],"class_list":["post-309209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-crime","category-uk","tag-london"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t