Teenager accused of fatal attack ‘thought it funny’

repeatedly struck Razvan Sirbu on the head, face and back with a fence post, it was alleged.

Macdonald, 19, of Regency Place, Maidstone, Charlie White, 19, previously of Quarry Road, Maidstone, and Jimmy Buckley, 20, of Capell Close, Coxheath, all deny murdering 21-year-old Mr Sirbu.

Buckley has been found unfit to plead to the charge and the jury will have to decide whether he “did the act”.

At their trial at Maidstone Crown Court, a jury heard the victim was beaten to death close to where he had been sleeping rough in a tent, in woods at Loose Valley Conservation Area, in May. The cause of death was given as blunt force trauma to the head and torso. He had multiple skull and facial bone fractures, as well as other injuries, including broken ribs.

A female friend of Charlie White’s said she met him at a skate park in Tovil the morning after the victim was killed.

She told jurors White wept as he maintained he had not killed Mr Sirbu and only lashed out with the meat cleaver because he was scared.

“Charlie said Alex had a fence post and was hitting him when he was on the floor,” she said.

“Charlie told him to stop but he didn’t. He was hitting him in his face, about 20 times – a lot.”

The girl said White told her Buckley had kicked and punched the man.

Asked what White did with the meat cleaver, she said he admitted he “hit the bloke six or seven times with it”.

Two days later, she said, she was at a trailer in Shepherdswell, near Dover, when she overheard White ask Macdonald which of them killed Mr Sirbu. She said Macdonald replied: “Well, I killed him didn’t I?”

White asked why he did not stop when he told him to, and he responded: “Cos I thought it was funny.”

The trial continues.