Teenager 'hounded and killed' by gang of schoolchildren
A 16-year-old boy was hounded and killed in a UK park by a gang of schoolchildren, the Old Bailey heard today.
Some of the youngsters were still wearing their school blazers and ties as they chased Nicholas Pearton with knives and other weapons.
And within minutes, he was dead, stabbed in the back and lying in a shop doorway, said Edward Brown QC, prosecuting.
He said the violence was the result of a clash between two gangs – the Shanks & Guns and the rival Black Mafia.
Nicholas died after the knife pierced his heart after after the gang of mainly 15 and 16-year-old members of the S&G chased him through Home Park, Sydenham, south-east London, in May last year.
Mr Brown said: “Nicholas Pearton was chased across a public park by a group of young but armed teenagers.
“He was unable to escape. When he was caught he was stabbed and killed.
“Some of the defendants were in their school uniform at the time of the attack - in their blazers and ties.
“Indeed the origin of the fatal violence in the park that afternoon may have been an incident earlier in the day at a school.”
Six youths aged 14, 15, two aged 16 and two now aged 17, deny murder. They are all from the south-east London area but cannot be identified for legal reasons.
