Man 'stabbed' by murder accused describes attack

Eddie Kinuthia, 19, died after being stabbed near his home in July 2023

A teenager allegedly stabbed by a man accused of murder has described the moment he was attacked.

Two recorded police interviews with Nathan Williams were shown to the jury at Bristol Crown Court on Monday - the first of which was carried out from his bed in Southmead Hospital in February 2024.

They showed Mr Williams describing the moment he was allegedly stabbed in the back by Paul Elijah Hayden, 22, of Hanham on 2 February 2024.

The attack took place more than six months after the death of Eddie Kinuthia in the Grosvenor Road area of St Pauls, Bristol, for which Mr Hayden and Zacharia Talbert-Young, 27, from Easton have been charged with murder.

While Mr Williams did not identify Mr Talbert-Young in his police interviews, both he and Mr Hayden have also been charged with his attempted murder. They deny all the charges.

In his first interview with police Mr Williams, who grew up in Easton, described stopping at Lawrence Hill roundabout to tighten the brakes on his electric scooter when he was approached by two people dressed in dark clothing, also on scooters.

Within seconds, he told the police interviewing him, he had sustained a cut to the finger before feeling knife wounds in his back.

Asked if he had seen Mr Hayden holding a knife he said: "I can't remember if I've seen a blade in his hand, but I know he had one on him for a million percent fact.

"They don't leave their house without a blade."

He went on to describe dropping his scooter and running towards the road to try and find help.

Unable to find help from passers-by, he said, he lay down on the kerb and video called a female friend to tell her what had happened before a police car was flagged down.

Mr Young initially told police he believed he had been attacked by Mr Hayden over his friendship with the woman he had video called - an ex-girlfriend of Mr Hayden.

But at a second police interview in May, Mr Williams said he did not remember "entirely" what he had initially told police and admitted he had owed £700 to friends of Mr Hayden who were dealing drugs.

He said in the interview he was threatened "four or five months" before he was stabbed, and did not want to tell police in the initial interview he was dealing drugs.

He told police: "Now that I've come out of hospital and I can think clearly I think, this makes more sense."

The trial continues.