A man accused of hacking a schoolboy to death with a Samurai sword re-enacted the attack in hospital afterwards, a jury was told.
Marcus Arduini Monzo, 37, is on trial for murder and attempted murder after going on a terrifying rampage that left Daniel Anjorin, 14, dead and five people injured.
He claims he has no memory of the attack in Hainault, east London on April 30 last year, when he was allegedly under the influence of cannabis.
Under cross-examination at the Old Bailey today, Monzo was asked about a conversation he had with a member of staff at Broadmoor secure psychiatric hospital, where he was transferred to after his arrest.
Prosecutor Tom Little KC said: ‘What about other films about killing? Can you remember shortly after you were transferred to Broadmoor a member of staff indicated that they liked horror films and as a result you became animated and you started undertaking a stabbing motion with your arms?’
Monzo replied: ‘I don’t like horror movies at all. I like action movies with killing in them.’
Mr Little continued: ‘You asked the member of staff if they liked ‘killing movies’.
‘Your stabbing motion is exactly what you do to at least one of the individuals on April 30.’
Monzo replied: ‘I don’t know.’
The prosecutor asked: ‘Do you remember attacking anybody on April 30?’
Monzo replied: ‘I don’t remember anything.’
Mr Little also asked him about a video before the attacks in which he shows off a sword and describes it as ‘frigging sexy’.
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The prosecutor said: ‘Did you think that the sword that you used on April 30 was ‘frigging sexy’?’
Monzo replied: ‘I was trying to be funny. If I had watched it back I would not have liked it and deleted it.’
Earlier, the defendant told jurors he believed the earth was flat and the 9/11 terrorist attack in the United States was “probably” a conspiracy.
He told jurors his views were largely formed after he visited India and started consuming hallucinogenic tea ayahuasca and cannabis.
Monzo denies Daniel’s murder and the attempted murders of Donato Iwule, Sindy Arias, Henry De Los Rios Polania and Pc Yasmin Mechem-Whitfield, as well as wounding Inspector Molloy Campbell with intent.
He also denies aggravated burglary and possession of a bladed article relating to a kitchen knife.
Monzo admits having two swords.
Mr Little previously told jurors: ‘There is no issue then that it was that man in the dock that carried out that string of attacks and who killed Daniel Anjorin and seriously injured a number of others.
‘What you have to decide is very largely as straightforward as why he did so and what his state of mind was at the material time.
‘The prosecution case is that this is a clear case of murder and that it is also a clear case of four attempted murders. We say that the defendant’s conduct was brought about by self-induced intoxication in the form of drugs. This, we say, led to a psychotic disorder.’
He added: ‘The defence case is that the defendant was most likely suffering from a pre-existing condition … which created a vulnerability to experiencing psychotic episodes with schizophrenia-like symptoms, prompted by his use of cannabis.’
Daniel had been on the way to school wearing his PE kit and earphones in when he was killed.
His head was virtually decapitated in the horrific slaying.
Thetrial continues.
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