A HANWELL TEENAGER STABBED A 17 YEARS OLD BOY TO D

A HANWELL TEENAGER STABBED A 17 YEARS OLD BOY TO DEATH IN A

BLOODY REVENGE ATTACK WHEN HIS YOUNGER HALF BROTHER CLAIMED HE WAS

PUNCHED DURING A ROW, AN OLD BAILEY JURY HEARD.

LEE RUSSELL, NOW 18, ARMED HIMSELF WITH A FLICK KNIFE AND

STORMED ROUND TO THE HOME OF FREDERICK NICHOLLS AFTER 12 YEARS OLD

MICHAEL STONE CAME HOME CRYING, SAYING HE WAS PUNCHED BY NICHOLLS

DURING A ROW, THE COURT HEARD.

RUSSELL, A TRAINEE BRICK LAYER, STABBED NICHOLLS IN THE ARM AND

CHEST PENETRATING HIS HEART, ALLEGED MR ROY AMLOT, PROSECUTING.

THEN AFTER DUMPING THE KNIFE – WHICH WAS LATER RECOVERED NEARBY

– RUSSELL WALKED INTO EALING POLICE STATION AND TOLD OFFICERS: ‘I

DON’T REMEMBER DOING IT.

‘

THE COURT HEARD MICHAEL HAD GONE TO FREDERICK’S HOME TO STAY THE

NIGHT AND TO WATCH A VIDEO WHILE FREDERICK’S PARENTS WERE OUT.

DURING THE EVENING THE PAIR STARTED ROWING ABOUT AN AIR PISTOL

FREDERICK HAD GOT FROM MICHAEL.

HE REFUSED TO HAND IT BACK

UNTIL THE YOUNGER BOY REPAID A #2.

50 DEBT, THE JURY WERE TOLD.

MOMENTS LATER FREDERICK HIT THE YOUNGSTER WHO THEN WENT HOME

BRUISED AND CRYING.

AT ONE STAGE THE BOY RETURNED TO TRY AND GET HIS GUN BACK, BUT

FREDERICK REFUSED TO RETURN IT.

AFTER HEARING HOW HIS HALF BROTHER HAD BEEN TREATED LEE DECIDED

TO GO AND SORT THINGS OUT.

AND ARMED WITH A KNIFE TO ‘SCARE’ FREDERICK, RUSSELL WENT TO THE

TEENAGER’S FLAT IN HUMBER COURT, HIGHLANDS ESTATE.

‘RUSSELL KNOCKED ON THE DOOR AND PRODUCED A FLICK KNIFE.

HE

WENT UP TO NICHOLLS AND THERE WAS A SHORT CONVERSATION AND HE STABBED

HIM.

HE KILLED HIM DEAD,’ MR AMLOT TOLD THE JURY.

RUSSELL LATER ALLEGEDLY TOLD POLICE: ‘I ASKED FREDERICK WHERE

THE GUN WAS BELONGING TO MICHAEL.

HE SAID IT WAS IN THE BEDROOM THEN

HE STARTED SHAKING AND I SAW BLOOD ON HIS TOP.

THEN I REALSIED WHAT I

HAD DONE – STABBED HIM.

‘

ADDING: ‘I DID NOT MEAN TO STAB HIM.

‘

EYE WITNESS MICHAEL BOLTON, 17, WHO LIVED IN THE SAME BLOCK OF

FLATS CLAIMED LEE ATTACKED HIS VICTIM AS HE SAT ON A SOFA.

RUSSELL, OF STOUR COURT, HIGHLANDS ESTATE, DENIES MURDERING

UNEMPLOYED NICHOLLS, ON APRIL 5 LAST YEAR.

THE TRIAL CONTINUES.

ENDS