Easton<\/a> months later.<\/p>\nMr Langdon told the jury that Talbert-Young, 27, from Easton, and Hayden, 22, from Hanham, \u2018worked together in a joint enterprise\u2019 as they planned and carried out the attack on Eddie King Kinuthia at Grosvenor Park in St Pauls at 11pm on the evening of July 21, 2023.<\/p>\n
He showed CCTV of the attack taking place, with the video showing two men in black clothing and face coverings getting off a distinctive high-powered e-bike, with the pillion passenger stabbing Eddie many times.<\/p>\n
In his opening submission this morning (Tuesday), Mr Langdon told the jury that the Crown did not know what the motive was for attacking Eddie, nor did they have to prove the motive, but one reason could be the ongoing rivalry between what he described as \u2018factions\u2019 – the \u20182-4s\u2019 based around St Pauls, and the \u20181-6s\u2019 based further east in Fishponds and Easton.<\/p>\n
Mr Langdon told the jury: \u201cThere is within Bristol \u2013 and sadly this has been so for many years now, since about 2018 – a violent rivalry between young men from the St Pauls area, and those from further east, as far as Fishponds and surrounding areas.<\/p>\n
\u201cBased on the respective postcodes, those associated with St Pauls have come to be known as the \u20182-4s\u2019 and those from East Bristol, the \u20181-6s\u2019. There have been a number of violent incidents, including killings \u2013 murders \u2013 in recent years, which appear to have been driven by rivalry and reprisals between the two factions,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Mr Langdon mentioned aspiring rapper Takayo Nembhard – better known as TKor Stretch, or just TK – who was stabbed to death at the Notting Hill Carnival in 2022. He said he was a \u2018prominent member of the 1-6s\u2019, and was \u2018an associate’ of both Talbert-Young and Hayden. The jury was told Hayden had appeared in one of Nembhard\u2019s videos, which was uploaded in 2023 when his family released an album of his music posthumously.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne of the hallmarks of the 1-6s is the wearing of a green bandana,\u201d Mr Langdon told the jury. \u201cMr Hayden can be seen wearing such a bandana in a music video in which Takayo Nembhard is the centrepiece. When police searched Hayden\u2019s home two days after Eddie Kinuthia\u2019s murder, they found such a bandana.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt appears that each of Nembhard, Talbert-Young and Hayden were closely associated with the 1-6 cohort of young men. Eddie Kinuthia, on the other hand, was very much associated with St Pauls and the 2-4s. He lived in the heart of St Pauls. He was of the same age as key members of the 2-4s and was regularly seen associating with them,\u201d Mr Langdon added.<\/p>\n
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Eddie King Muthemba Kinuthia was fatally stabbed in a park in Bristol(Image: PA Media)<\/p>\n
\u201cIn relation to this topic of violent rivalry between the 2-4s and the 1-6s, the prosecution does not know why Eddie Kinuthia was murdered. There is, in fact, no obligation on the prosecution to prove the motive that drove those responsible, to kill him. But it is right you should know that this cohort rivalry and reprisal activity exists and is a very real day-to-day feature in the lives of those who are at the centre of the evidence in this case.<\/p>\n
\u201cOn the face of the evidence, this feature may have a bearing on why the attack on Eddie Kinuthia – which otherwise appears to have been random in nature – took place. You must not make the mistake of considering that, because these defendants or either of them, is associated with the 1-6s, that somehow of itself proves their guilt. Of course it does not. Mere association with one of these rival factions, on its own, proves very little. But the prosecution suggest it may be relevant in this case to the question of motive in what otherwise appears to have been a motiveless attack,\u201d he told the court.<\/p>\n
Mr Langdon outlined the detailed evidence that the Crown will present to the jury over the next week or so, that he said showed Hayden travelled from his home in Hanham, met up with Talbert-Young in Easton, retrieved a distinctive e-bike from the backyard of a home in Whitehall, and rode it into St Pauls before stabbing Eddie Kinuthia.<\/p>\n
The jury was also told they would be shown evidence that Talbert-Young\u2019s cousin Remi Hitchcock, 30, from Easton, helped dispose of the bike around an hour after the attack. He is standing trial alongside the other defendants, charged with assisting an offender.<\/p>\n
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Mother of Eddie King – Irene Muthemba – at a memorial event in January(Image: PAUL GILLIS \/ Reach PLC)<\/p>\n
The jury was also told that several times over the course of the next few months, large knives were found in the homes of both Talbert-Young and Hayden, or were found by police in other locations and found to have their DNA. Both men deny the charges against them.<\/p>\n
Mr Langdon also told the jury that police arrested Hayden at home a few days after the attack on Eddie Kinuthia, after work to trace the e-bike\u2019s journey by scouring CCTV images across East Bristol, but attempts to arrest Talbert-Young failed.<\/p>\n
He was eventually stopped by police in Merseyside almost four weeks later, as he was about to board a late evening ferry from Liverpool to Belfast, and he had \u00a31,392 and \u20ac540 in cash.<\/p>\n
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Eddie Kinuthia(Image: Avon and Somerset Police)<\/p>\n