FOUR teenagers accused of murdering an 18-year-old Southampton man are due to go on trial at Winchester Crown Court today.

Lewis Singleton, of Upper Weston Lane, Woolston, pictured, was fatally stabbed during an incident in the street as he walked home after a night out with friends.

Rikki Johnson, 18, a roofer of Honeysuckle Road, Bassett; Sercan Calik, 18, of Burgess Road, Bassett, and a 15-year-old boy and a 16-year-old boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, all deny the charge.

Lewis died on March 31, hours after being stabbed during an incident in the early hours of the morning in Obelisk Road, Woolston. Hundreds of friends and relatives filled the Holy Trinity Church in Weston to say farewell to the former Woolston School pupil at his funeral.

The teenager was the third of four children who grew up in St Mary's before moving across the Itchen Bridge with his family.

The packed church heard how, at the age of 16, Lewis had worked at Southampton Football Club first as a catering assistant and later as a barman - a job he loved.

He had also started a plumbing course at Southampton City College and had taken some time to travel, spending four months in South Africa about which his dad had said "he went as a boy and had returned a man".

The service in May last year included tributes from Lewis's parents Terry and Jen which said: "No words, just music playing loud. What a wonderful son, you made us proud."

The trial is expected to last three to four weeks.