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Martin Dinnegan |
Victim said: ‘I don’t want to fight’ before stabbing, murder trial told
A SCHOOLGIRL told a jury this week that she heard Martin Dinnegan calling for peace just an hour before he was fatally attacked.
The 15-year-old witness, in a bright pink trouser suit, gave evidence over a video link at the Old Bailey.
She described how she was with a group of girls having a friendly chat with the 14-year-old schoolboy and his pals in Whittington Park, Archway, when trouble loomed.
The girl, who had been on work experience at a photo business that day, told the jury she had been given a camera and added: “I took loads of photos.” Several of them, showing the activities in the park, will be seen by the jury, barristers and Judge Brian Barker.
The trial of four accused who deny a murder charge has heard how Martin was stabbed four times in the back on June 26 last year.
A pupil at St Aloysius College, in Archway, he lived with his family in Evershot Road, Finsbury Park,
Bad feeling among two groups of youths escalated from “dirty looks” to the fatal attack in Axminster Road, Holloway, the court has been told.
“Martin didn’t want any trouble,” the schoolgirl told the jury.
She recalled that he was sitting on a bench chatting to a girl when he declared over a mobile phone: “It’s all over. I don’t want to fight you.”
Seconds later four older boys arrived on cycles. “One of them put his hand in Martin’s face,” she said. “He was talking to him with attitude – in an aggressive way. Threatening, as if he wanted to do something to Martin.”
Later, she claimed she saw one accused, Sean “Whitey” Clark, bash Martin on the head with a motor scooter helmet.
Clark, 19, of Bennett Court, Axminster Road, Holloway, Rene John-Baptiste, 21, of Plaistow, east London, and two others, aged 16 and 17 from Islington – whose identities cannot be revealed – are in the dock.
They admit being in the area when Martin was killed but deny participating in his death.
The trial continues. |
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