1 month ago
12
Avon and Somerset Police
Mason Rist (L) and Max Dixon (R) were killed successful a lawsuit of mistaken identity, linked to a long-running postcode rivalry
A assemblage has been shown CCTV footage of the moments starring up to a 33-second fatal onslaught connected 2 teenage boys.
Mason Rist, 15, and Max Dixon, 16, tin beryllium seen successful the images leaving Mason’s location connected Ilminster Avenue successful Knowle West, Bristol, soon aft 23:00 GMT connected 27 January.
Bristol Crown Court heard however the adjacent friends were past acceptable upon by 4 teenage boys, equipped with "fearsome weapons".
Antony Snook, 45, Riley Tolliver, 18, and 3 boys aged 17, 16 and 15 – who cannot beryllium named owed to their property – are connected trial, each charged with 2 counts of murder.
Prosecutor Ray Tully QC told the assemblage of 9 men and 3 women however the brace had been wrongly identified arsenic being responsible for a abstracted onslaught connected a location successful Hartcliffe earlier that evening.
Avon and Somerset Police
Mr Tully said 3 radical had targeted a location successful Hartcliffe connected the nighttime of the attack
At astir 22:00 GMT, 3 masked individuals were caught connected CCTV extracurricular the property, wielding machetes and throwing bricks done the windows, injuring a pistillate inside.
Mr Tully said an hr later, Snook, Tolliver and the 3 teenage boys near the Hartcliffe country successful Snook’s Audi Q2, "hell-bent connected revenge".
He added that determination had been a "postcode rivalry" betwixt Hartcliffe and Knowle West for immoderate time.
Avon and Somerset Police
CCTV footage captured Max and Mason smiling arsenic they near the location together, conscionable seconds earlier they were acceptable upon by their attackers
CCTV images captured from Mason's location connected Ilminster Avenue showed the Audi, driven by Mr Snook, dilatory down arsenic it passed Max arriving astatine his friend's home.
The car past drives retired of frame, and Max and Mason permission the code unneurotic soon thereafter.
Moments later, the aforesaid camera captures the Audi reappearing. Four radical leap retired and pursuit the boys down the road, earlier inflicting the fatal injuries, the tribunal was told.
The suspects past piled backmost into the car, which performs a U-turn successful the thoroughfare and sped away, leaving Mason collapsed successful the roadworthy conscionable feet distant from his household home.
Avon and Somerset Police
One of the defendants is captured holding a ample machete
Mason was aboriginal pronounced dormant astatine Bristol Children’s Hospital astatine 00:49 GMT, portion Max was pronounced dormant astatine Southmead Hospital astatine 01:02 GMT.
The 15-year-old defendant, who cannot beryllium named for ineligible reasons, has admitted murdering Mason Rist, 15, who died aft being stabbed twice.
Another boy, 17, has pleaded blameworthy to the manslaughter of Max Dixon, 16, who died aft being stabbed once.
The proceedings continues.
English (US)