\n Deonte Mowatt-Slater was found dying in Islington, north London, in the early hours of October 22 last year, and died at the scene of the crash.\n<\/p>\n
\n Francie McCarthy, 22, of Islington, is standing trial at the Old Bailey, accused of murdering Deonte.\n<\/p>\n
\n Prosecutor Edward Brown KC told jurors on Monday: \u201cThe police and ambulance services were called to what was immediately thought to be a road traffic collision involving a youth on a moped who had, it was then believed, driven into a lamppost.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cDeonte had plainly been very badly injured \u2013 somehow.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cHe was in a grave condition with very few signs of life.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cIt transpired, however \u2026 that he had been stabbed to the front of his neck.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cSoon it was discovered that he had been stabbed twice, in fact, he had suffered another stab wound to his chest.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cHe very quickly deteriorated and despite all the efforts of the ambulance service and the specialist medical teams who quickly arrived, he could not be saved or brought back to life.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n Deonte was pronounced dead at 1.16am, the court was told.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cHe had been killed,\u201d Mr Brown added.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cThe stab wound to the neck passed through the right carotid artery and subclavian arteries.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cThe second and separate stab wound to the chest passed into the left lung.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cHis death was not caused by any collision with the lamppost, which may itself have been as a result of Deonte losing consciousness as he rode from the scene of the attack.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n The prosecution alleges that McCarthy crossed paths with Deonte in Courtauld Road, Islington, that night, and that an altercation ensued during which Deonte was stabbed twice before riding off and crashing on the same street.\n<\/p>\n
\n Emergency services were called shortly after midnight by Rose Galugbo who was getting home when she heard the revving of an engine followed by a loud crash.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cShe went out to see what had happened and found Deonte on the ground,\u201d Mr Brown told the jury.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cShe was the only person on the street at the time.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cDeonte was, in those moments, groaning and just moving \u2013 but very soon fell silent.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cShe thought, understandably, that the victim had crashed his moped.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cIt was clear to Ms Galugbo that Deonte was bleeding \u2013 she saw blood seeping out as soon as she went to him.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n Nel Richards heard two boys or men shouting before the crash, the court was told.\n<\/p>\n
\n From her window, she saw a person wearing grey jogging bottoms running away, who the prosecution alleges was McCarthy.\n<\/p>\n
\n CCTV footage from the time of the incident was also played to jurors, in which loud revving is heard before a moped is seen travelling fast down the road, then disappearing out of view.\n<\/p>\n
\n A loud bang is heard and a voice is then heard shouting \u201cCome here!\u201d as a man in grey jogging bottoms appears running down the road, apparently chasing after the moped.\n<\/p>\n
\n McCarthy denies one count of murder.\n<\/p>\n
\n The trial continues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Deonte Mowatt-Slater was found dying in Islington, north London, in the early hours of October 22 last year,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356126,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,4884,257,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-356125","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-london","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115054038525368634","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}