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‘Teenagers saw drug dealer stabbed to
death in street’
A STREET brawl between two “small- time” drug dealers ended with the death of one of them as 30 bystanders watched, the Old Bailey has heard.
The former friends clashed in front of a crowd of teenage onlookers after a dispute over cash.
Police arrived in Grosvenor Avenue, Highbury, on the evening of September 22, 2006, to find Valston Murraine dying.
Prosecutor Joanna Korner, QC, said Mr Murraine had been knifed four times. “Three of the injuries were superficial but the fatal one pierced his heart,” she told a jury. Mr Murraine, 20, a regular at the Michael Sobell gym in Finsbury Park, had £1,000 in £20 notes in his breast pocket when he was stabbed in the chest.
The knife, allegedly wielded by Shane Riley, 22, went straight through the banknotes and into his chest.
Riley, of President House, King Square, Finsbury, denies manslaughter and claims self defence.
Mr Murraine, a shop worker from Six Acres estate, in Finsbury Park, had arrived in Grosvenor Avenue in a friend’s car after being given a lift from the gym.
There were 25 young men and five girls present when he and Riley confronted each other.
Many of “the kids” were involved in low-level drug sales in the locality of Elmsfield House, the court was told.
Riley went by the street name Styles while Murraine was a member of a gang known as The Lordship Boys.
Miss Korner said that when Mr Murraine was found sprawled on the pavement he was given open heart surgery by paramedics in a bid to revive him.
The trial continues. |
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