The jury has left the court for the weekend.

They will return at 10:00 on Monday.

At 20:11, a friend of Mr Ong-a-Kwie booked a mini-cab on his behalf with A1 Minicabs to be taken from Hillfoot Road to Chippenham Road in Harold Hill.

"I didn't have my iPhone on me, so when [my friend] called me, I asked him to call me a cab to Joshua Compton's house [to give him weed]."

"Was there anything sinister about that?"

"No, not at all," Mr Ong-a-Kwie replied.

Referring to the evidence of Svenson Ong-a-Kwie's phone detaching from the network on three occasions throughout the day on 1 March, Mr Sherrard asked: "Were you in the business of switching off your phone intentionally?"

"No, I had trouble with the battery on my iPhone. It would just turn off a lot and I'd have to put it on charge," he replied.

"In Amy's Park, when your phone detached from the network at 21:13, did you switch it off to avoid detection of any kind?"

"No, I didn't," he replied.

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"When you met at Cafe 23 on 1 March, what sort of thing would you chat about?" Mr Sherrard asked.

"Me and Manuel would just do business really, we'd just chat about anything," Mr Ong-a-Kwie replied.

The four defendants then split up, with Mr Ong-a-Kwie spending the remainder of the day dealing drugs with the 17-year-old in Harold Hill, mostly on foot.

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"We are are here today because Jodie Chesney was murdered," Mr Sherrard said.

"Did you do that?" he asked.

"No, I did not kill Jodie Chesney," he replied, looking at the jury.

"Who did?" Mr Sherrard asked.

"[The 17-year-old defendant] did," he replied nodding towards his co-defendant in the dock.

"Did you know that [the stabbing] was going to happen at the time?" Mr Sherrard asked.

"No, not at all," Mr Ong-a-Kwie replied.

Mr Sherrard asked Mr Ong-a-Kwie if he had "any beef" with any other dealers in the Harold Hill area.

"No," Mr Ong-a-Kwie said. "I had plenty of customers."

"Between October and March, were you chasing around hunting anybody?" Mr Sherrard asked.

"No," he replied.

"How frequent was your business carried out in Amy's Park?" the barrister asked.

"Quite, I would be known there. It's a small place."

Charlie Sherrard QC has asked what Svenson Ong-a-Kwie would do with Manuel Petrovic "as friends".

"We'd meet up together, visit the caff and that's about it," he replied.

He said he had known both the 16-year-old defendant and the 17-year-old defendant for approximately four years.

He would see the 17-year-old defendant nearly everyday.

Danny Shaw
BBC Home Affairs Correspondent

A Section 45 order is a legal ruling made by a judge which bans publication of the identity of any witness, victim or defendant aged under 18 who appears at a Magistrates Court or a Crown Court.

The ban includes reporting the young person's name, address, school, college or place of work - and any details that are likely to identify the person.

Photographs of the individual are banned as well.

The rule relates to all reports of the case on radio, television, newspapers, magazines, online and social media.

The ban applies during the duration of the trial and all other related criminal proceedings, and until the person turns 18.

Witnesses and victims may apply for lifelong anonymity, so they can't be named even after they've turned 18.

A judge may decide to lift the restrictions on a young person who's been convicted, but this only happens in exceptional circumstances.

It's a crime to breach a Section 45 order and can result in a prison sentence.

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On 1 March, there were around 500 texts and calls made by Mr Ong-a-Kwie's drug line - including texts advertising Pineapple Express (a strain of cannabis).

He said he began selling cannabis for himself in 2017 but he couldn't remember how and why he got into it.

In terms of his relationship with Manuel Petrovic, Mr Ong-a-Kwie said they were "really close friends".

"We'd see each other almost everyday and we were working together," he said.

Since some time in 2017, Svenson Ong-a-Kwie had been living in a hostel in Hillfoot Road, Collier Row.

There, he lived alone in his own room.

He didn't have a car and he didn't lead a lavish lifestyle, despite selling drugs, he told jurors.

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To begin his evidence, Mr Ong-a-Kwie has told the jury a few facts about himself, including:

• At the time Jodie was killed, he was living in a hostel in Hillfoot Road, Collier Row
• He has lived in Harold Hill, east London all of his life
• He has four sisters
• In 2015 he met his father, from Belgium, who he had not known growing up
• He went to live in Belgium with his father for a bit - but it didn't work out and so he returned to London
• He described his mother as "amazing", and that she would not tolerate disrespect, but they did clash at times
• He was arrested in 2016 for dealing Class A drugs

Svenson Ong-a-Kwie, 19, has been called to the witness box by his barrister Charlie Sherrard QC.

The 16-year-old defendant, who cannot be named for legal reasons, will not be giving evidence, the court has been told.

We have returned after the lunch break.

Sarah Forshaw QC, representing Manuel Petrovic, is expected to close her case before Svenson Ong-a-Kwie is called to the witness box.

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Sarah Forshaw QC has now finished her re-examination and Judge Wendy Joseph QC says she has no further questions.

She says she will close her case after the lunch break which she initially adjourned until 14:00.

However, Charlie Sherrard QC – Svenson Ong-a-Kwie’s defence barrister, asked if the court could sit again at 14:30 instead.

“Is it necessary?” Judge Joseph QC asked.

Mr Sherrard nodded.

“If it is necessary, then it is necessary. 14:30 it is,” Judge Joseph told the jury.

Manuel Petrovic told the court he came to the conclusion Svenson Ong-a-Kwie went to “bang out his ops”.

“I knew that he had been stabbed before,” Mr Petrovic said. “He asked me for a lift but was already in Harold Hill.

“If he was already in Harold Hill then he would not need me for drugs.”

“Do you know whether he stabbed Jodie?” Sarah Forshaw QC asked.

“No, I did not,” Mr Petrovic replied. “But I was reading something [a witness statement] about the taller male.

“I remember what he was wearing, the white hood underneath with a parka. One of the witnesses described him like that.”

Mr Petrovic said there was nothing “unusual” about the morning after Jodie Chesney was stabbed and that he had “never” been robbed at knife point.

Manuel Petrovic has told the jury the last time he saw Svenson Ong-a-Kwie was on 2 March by an alleyway near a friend’s house at about 13:00.

The 20-year-old said he was asked by Mr Ong-a-Kwie to take a phone and Mr Petrovic refused.

He also said he asked why Mr Ong-a-Kwie wanted a change of clothes and if he had seen the news of Jodie Chesney’s death.

Mr Petrovic said Mr Ong-a-Kwie’s number “was not a contact on his phone” and had not memorised anyone else’s phone numbers apart from his on.

When asked to pick Svenson Ong-a-Kwie up from his hostel on the afternoon of 1 March, Manuel Petrovic said he was aware of a CCTV camera.

But, the 20-year-old said he did not intentionally park out of the view of the camera on Hillfoot Road, in Collier Row.

CCTV footage was then played to the jury showing Mr Ong-a-Kwie leaving his hostel and Mr Petrovic driving away.

He admitted to the jury the number plate belonged to the car he bought on 27 February.

Sarah Forshaw QC begins her re-examination by asking if Manuel Petrovic had “told the jury any lies in this trial”.

The 20-year-old replied: “No. I haven’t.”

“You told your [prison] visitor you were worried,” Miss Forshaw said. "What were you worried about?”

Mr Petrovic said: “I was worried about being arrested on suspicion of murder, but I was also worried about having the 16-year-old boy selling drugs for me.

“I have never been arrested for murder," he added.

“Are you guilty of murder?” Miss Forshaw asked.

“No, I am not,” he replied.

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After Jodie Chesney was stabbed in the park, Crispin Aylett QC said “there was all sorts of gossip and rumour about what this was all about”.

“But,” Mr Aylett told the court. “You knew, Manuel.”

"You knew they were going there with knives to stab someone, that’s the truth isn’t it?"

Mr Petrovic replied: "That’s not the truth and I would admit it if it was the truth."

Mr Aylett has now finished his cross examination and now Sarah Forshaw QC, Mr Petrovic’s defence barrister, is now re-examining her client.