Minute-by-minute accounts of horrified onlookers during London sword rampage

Forensic investigators in Laing Close in Hainault, north east London, after a 14-year-old boy died after being stabbed and a sword-wielding man arrested (Jordan Pettitt/PA)

Horrified onlookers have given dramatic accounts of how a sword-wielding man attacked members of the public and police, leaving a 14-year-old boy dead.

As people in properties in the Thurlow Gardens area of Hainault, east London, began waking up, screaming and shouting could be heard from outside at around 6.50am.