Overview
- Giving evidence, the teenager denied attempted murder and said he intended only to "batter" the other boy in a planned confrontation.
- Prosecutor Arthur Gibson called the account a "pack of lies," alleging the youth armed himself with a kitchen knife from home.
- Previously shown CCTV captured the defendant circling behind the 15-year-old at a bus stop and stabbing him repeatedly, with the boy’s 14-year-old girlfriend also wounded.
- The male victim sustained 11 stab wounds, including liver and kidney injuries, and the girl suffered a chest wound to the lung; both had surgery and later recovered.
- The incident followed an earlier dispute involving a metal pole that injured a friend of the defendant, and police arrested the boy at his home shortly after 9:30pm that night as the trial continues at Liverpool Crown Court.