This is the terrifying moment a knifeman who slit a 10-year-old boy’s throat, stabbed two adults and ran over a five-year old girl in random attacks was caught on camera as he is jailed for life.
Carlos Racitalal, 33, was convicted of four counts of attempted murder following four separate incidents in Leicester in January this year.
Shocking CCTV footage released by police shows him sprinting down a street carrying a knife after attacking a man in his 70s.
He also knifed a boy, 10, and a woman in her 30s, and hit a girl, five, with a car, leaving her with a broken nose, cuts and bruises.
All his victims were hospitalised before being discharged days later.
A CCTV image of the defendant released on January 20 led to him handing himself in at Mansfield House police station a few hours later where he was arrested.
The defendant was carrying a rucksack at the time of his arrest which was the same as one seen in CCTV images from the incidents.
He was found guilty of the four offences on Thursday and of three counts of possession of a bladed article.
He was handed four life imprisonment sentences to be served concurrently with a minimum term of 22 years and six months at Leicester Crown Court yesterday.