Alexandre Pigeard, 26, was killed in the London Bridge attack
A diner who saw an evil-looking London Bridge terrorist stab her waiter to death feared she would die next as the 'smiling' killer scoured the scene for his next victim, an inquest heard today.
Andzelika Abokaityte and her boyfriend were celebrating a friend's birthday at Boro Bistro on the evening of June 3, 2017 when Frenchman Alexandre Pigeard, who had been serving them, was brutally killed.
Mr Pigeard, 26, was one of eight victims of the three terrorists who had taped armed with 12in ceramic knives.
The couple heard the terrorists' van crash into the railings above them, sending debris down onto the tables in the courtyard below.
'My friends stood up and they were looking at what happened above us and they said a van crashed into the bridge,' she told the inquest into the deaths.
One friend was hit on the arm by glass or a brick from above, she said and she was asking him if he was OK when she heard people screaming.
Mr Pigeard was killed just three yards away from diners he was serving in Bore Bistro
'Shortly after I was looking and I could see a man holding our waiter,' she said.
The man was three metres away, grasping waiter Alexandre Pigeart from behind.
She said: 'I could only see his face.
'He looked evil and he was smiling.
'He was dark skinned, I think, with dark hair. I think he had a little beard. He was holding the waiter and stabbing him from behind.
'I think two times and then I looked at my friend and asked him to run.
'When I looked around and, I don't know if it was the same person, I saw him slicing the neck.'
The man was 'looking around as if to find the next person to stab', she said.
'I remember thinking I was going to die. The whole thing was horrific'.
The couple retreated inside the restaurant from where a friend jumped through the window, to rescue his wife from under one
