Blade that killed Jodie in park almost passed right through her body
GIRL Scout Jodie Chesney died from an 7in-deep knife wound which almost passed right through her body, a court has heard.
The 17-year-old was stabbed in the back while relaxing with friends at Amy’s Park in Harold Hill, east London, on March 1.
Despite the efforts of a resident, paramedics and police, the Old Bailey heard, the sixth form student was pronounced dead on the way to hospital.
Svenson Ong-a-Kwie, 19, Romford, east London, is said have landed the fatal blow.
He, along with Manuel Petrovic, 20, of Collier Row, east London, and two boys aged 16 and 17, of east London, deny murder.
The court heard Jodie was unlikely to have been the intended target of what is thought to have been a drug dispute and the stab wound that killed her was inflicted in a “fraction of a second”.
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Pathologist Dr Ashley FeganEarl, who carried out the postmortem examination on Jodie, told the court she had a stab wound to the right side of the back from a single-edged knife.
The blade had passed through Jodie’s skin, muscle, ribs and through a lung, and came within millimetres of fully penetrating her body, the pathologist said.
Describing her stab wound, Dr Fegan-Earl told the court: “There is an angulation. It is lined straight towards the right-hand side and then there is a downturn. It is not a clean wound.”
He told how Jodie would have experienced “difficulty in breathing” after bleeding in her chest cavity caused her lung to collapse.
But he added: “The great majority GRAHAM Norton has spoken out about the country’s knife crime epidemic – after once being stabbed and left for dead.
The BBC star, 56, says he feels now that “everyone is a victim” when there is a stabbing in Britain, with attackers failing to see the far-reaching and devastating fallout from their actions.
“Somehow, people have dehumanised,” he said.
The TV host has twice been attacked with a knife – the first time receiving serious injuries in 1989. He was at drama school and could have died following the 3am attack in Kilburn, north London.
“It was very serious,” he said in been of victims of stabbing are capable of purposeful activity even though they have received what will be a fatal wound.”
Dr Fegan-Earl recorded the cause of death as “shock and haemorrhage due to stab wound to back” and suggested “moderate force” would have been required. 2003. “It was a mugging. I didn’t even realise I’d been stabbed in that classic way – because your adrenaline is pumping.
“I looked down and I saw all this blood. I lost a bit over half my blood. So it was very touch and go, I think.”
But he says hearing about attacks now “doesn’t trigger anything” in him because they are so commonplace.
Graham said: “They don’t trigger anything now. I did have someone pull a knife on me again a few years after the first stabbing, but there were people around and But he added: “It does not mean severe force was not used.”
The pathologist said other factors such as the sharpness of the blade and the thickness of Jodie’s clothes were also relevant in determining the amount of force used.
When asked if a 8in black-handled, single-edge knife seized from it was fine, it was outside a club. Somebody wanted money and had a knife.
“And what’s so sad about the knife crime now is that everyone is a victim in the end.
“People are losing their lives and equally, the kids stabbing people, their life is destroyed for nothing, for this stupid thing because they couldn’t get their heads around the consequences.
“I think it’s a lack of imagination in the end.
“If you had the empathy, that level of imagination to think it through – that the person you’re stabbing could be a brother friend sister, mother or father – you Ong-a-Kwie’s room could have caused the wound, Dr Fegan-Earl said it was “consistent” with the injury but it was “entirely plausible a shorter blade gave rise to the longer wound track”.
However, Charles Sherrard QC, defending, said it was a hypothetical question as the wound could wouldn’t do it. Somehow, people have been dehumanised.”
The presenter was speaking in an interview ahead of the return tonight of his award-winning chat show, now in its 26th series.
He says it is still “a real adrenaline rush” to be on the sofa with a clutch of A-list stars.
“I always look forward to it,” he admits.
“When I settle back in my chair on that first night and the audience is excited and the stars are on the sofa, it’s always a bit of a ‘wow, I can’t believe I get to do this’ moment.”
● The Graham Norton Show, tonight, 10.35pm, BBC One. have been caused using kitchen knife”.
There is no forensic evidence linking the knife found in Ong-aKwie’s room to the killing.
The murder weapon is thought to have been thrown away and has never been found.
The trial continues. a “bogstandard