Zacharia Talbert-Young and another man were also found guilty of a second attempted murder
15:27, 20 Nov 2025Updated 15:40, 20 Nov 2025
19-year-old Eddie Kinuthia(Image: Jade Morris)
A man has been convicted of the murder of Bristol teenager Eddie Kinuthia after a jury found him guilty at Bristol Crown Court. Zacharia Talbert-Young was one of two men who rode on an e-bike from Easton to St Pauls to fatally stab Eddie, in an attack that formed part of an ongoing postcode rivalry.
A jury also convicted Talbert-Young and another man, Paul Hayden, of an attempted murder seven months later, after they had both been arrested on suspicion of – but not yet charged with – the murder of 19-year-old Eddie.
There were emotional cries from the public gallery in Court 1 at Bristol Crown Court as the family of Eddie Kinuthia heard the verdicts.
A third man in the trial – Talbert-Young’s cousin Remi Hitchcock – was found not guilty of assisting an offender. The high-powered electric motorbike used by Eddie’s killer came from the back yard of Mr Hitchcock’s house in Easton, and just a couple of hours after the murder, it was claimed he helped dispose of it, but the jury cleared him unanimously of the charge of assisting an offender.
Eddie King was fatally stabbed five times just before 11pm on the evening of Friday, July 21, 2023, in the open space known as Grosvenor Triangle, on Grosvenor Road in St Pauls – just yards from his home.
CCTV images tracing the journey of a high-powered e-bike from Easton to St Pauls and back again on the night of the murder of Eddie Kinuthia, 19, in St Pauls. The CCTV evidence was key to the case.(Image: Avon and Somerset police)
Eddie was a popular and well-known figure in St Pauls, and had two passions – music and cooking, with hopes to one day work in either catering or the record industry. His death sent shockwaves through St Pauls and Bristol, with a vigil held in the park where he died a few days later, and then Bristol Mayor Marvin Rees visiting the family to provide support.
The 19-year-old had been attending a ‘Nine Night’ celebration in a nearby community centre when he was approached by two masked men on an e-bike and stabbed. The jury in the trial heard that police pieced together the bike’s journey across Bristol on CCTV, and through that evidence and evidence from phone locations and messages, charged Talbert-Young and Hayden with Eddie’s murder.
During the trial, the judge ordered the jury to find Paul Hayden, 22, not guilty of Eddie’s murder, ruling that the prosecution had not provided sufficient evidence for the case against him to continue to be made.
Zachariah Talbert Young has been found guilty of the murder of Bristol teenager Eddie Kinuthia(Image: Avon and Somerset Police)
The prosecution had told the jury that they believed the motive for the attack was a rivalry between two groups in different areas of Bristol – the 2-4s based around St Pauls, and the 1-6s, based in East Bristol. Both Talbert-Young and Hayden were associated with the 1-6s, and while Eddie Kinuthia wasn’t a member of the 2-4s, as a well-known young person in St Pauls, he knew people who were involved.
After 14 hours, over nearly four days of deliberation, the jury found Talbert-Young, 27, guilty of Eddie’s murder, but cleared his cousin Remi Hitchcock of assisting an offender – finding him not guilty.
The court heard all three were arrested, but later released, and in February 2024 – seven months later – Talbert-Young and Hayden attacked another man, Nathan Williams, in Easton, leaving him with life-threatening stab wounds. Both were charged with attempted murder, and on Thursday, the jury found them guilty.
Outside court, the police chief who led the inquiry spoke of how challenging the case was – it has taken almost two and a half years for Eddie’s family to finally see justice. The judge in the case adjourned it for sentencing on Tuesday, November 25.