An 11-year-old girl will require plastic surgery after being stabbed eight times with a steak knife at Leicester Square while on holiday with her mother, a court has heard. Ioan Pintaru, 32, allegedly put the child in a headlock while attacking her before he was restrained by members of the public, then police arrived and arrested him. The girl was left with injuries to the face, shoulder, wrist and neck after the 'random attack' at the London tourist spot with her 34-year-old mother at 11.34am yesterday. Pintaru, a Romanian citizen of no fixed abode, appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court today charged with attempted murder and possession of a bladed article. He wore a grey prison-issue sweatshirt and the court heard he is a Romanian citizen. The charges were read to him through an interpreter during the ten-minute hearing. #leicestersquare #crime #ukcrime #news #uknews #ioanpintaru #london #centrallondon