Court hears gang laughed after Lewis stabbing (From Daily Echo)

Court hears gang laughed after Lewis stabbing

2:51pm Thursday 31st January 2008 in Lewis Singleton Trial By Jon Reeve, Education Reporter

Members of the gang that ambushed a Hampshire teenager laughed and joked about a job well done moments after he had been fatally stabbed, a court heard today.

Winchester Crown Court heard how Rikki Johnson showed a blood stained knife to his four friends as they got back into the car after the attack on Lewis Singleton in the early hours of March 31 last year.

Although 18-year-old Lewis was able to flee the scene in the Woolston area of Southampton he died later in hospital from injuries caused by six stab wounds.

The trial of four people for his murder today heard one of the defendants, a 16-year-old youth, who cannot be named for legal reasons describe the moments after the attack.

"Rikki said, we done a good job'," the youth told detectives interviewing him in the days after the attack.

"That was the first thing he said when he got back in the car, "I took that to mean that he had done something really serious.

"He said it's got blood on it and then they Johnson and another youth started laughing about it."

Sercan Calik, 19, of Burgess Road, Bassett, Rikki Johnson, 19, of Honeysuckle Road, Bassett, and two youths aged 16 and 17 who cannot be named for legal reasons all deny charges of murder and violent disorder.

Proceeding.