Overview

• Jury viewed April 4 iPhone footage of Monzo unpacking a 60 cm samurai sword and calling it “very ninja stuff” beside a cat later found skinned and deboned.
• Prosecutors played paramedic testimony describing Monzo striking an ambulance window and wielding the blade as they attempted to treat victims at the scene.
• PC Yasmin Mechem-Whitfield is said to have pursued Monzo through alleyways, where he struck her three times with “extreme force,” inflicting potentially lethal injuries.
• Emergency call recordings captured Monzo telling a dispatcher his van was on fire before asking “Do you believe in God?” and preventing officers from reaching the wounded.
• The defence will call mental health experts to argue that self-induced cannabis psychosis meets the legal criteria for diminished responsibility.