A Police officer stands at the scene of a stabbing in London (Image: AP/James Manning)
A Police officer stands at the scene of a stabbing in London (Image: AP/James Manning)

LONDON STABBING

An 11-year-old girl who was stabbed in London’s Leicester Square this week is Australian, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) has confirmed. The Guardian says the girl was visiting the English capital with her mother at the time of the attack. A court was told she required plastic surgery for wounds to her face, shoulder, wrist and neck.

The BBC reports she has since been discharged from hospital and police have charged 32-year-old Ioan Pintaru, who authorities say is a Romanian national with no fixed address, with attempted murder.