I felt sick when I realised scuffle was a stabbing

DOG WALKER THOUGHT LYRICO WAS BEING PUNCHED

A DOG walker saw people running and one of them fall over railings the night a teenager was fatally stabbed in Bulwell, a murder trial heard.

Natasha Hannon had been out walking with husband Scott and their dog Dougal when she noticed three lads running past them.

One was a little way ahead and the other two side by side just behind him, Nottingham Crown Court heard.

“They were in the middle of the road,” Mrs Hannon said.

One fell, she said, but she could not see why.

“I’m not sure he misjudged the height of the railings,” she said. “He certainly fell forwards”.

Two others followed him over the railings.

“One of them, it looked like he’d straddled across him. He went down low. He was punching male one, or what I thought was punching.”

The third youth was standing up at the side of the other two.

She said two more people ran by and “jumped to the fence, because after male two had hit male one, they got up and ran off”.

One of the other two had a scuffle with the first youth, she alleged.

Later, a friend sent her a text to say someone had been stabbed.

Jurors have heard Lyrico Steede was just 17 when he died five days after being knifed.

He had been chased over several hundred yards from a dark park in a recreation ground off Hempshill Lane, Bulwell. He was only caught when he stumbled, tripped or fell over a low railing on a road in Stock Well, the trial has heard.

Peter Joyce QC, prosecuting, asked Mrs Hannon how she felt now she knew it was a stabbing.

“Sick,” she said. “The fact that we were there and didn’t do anything. Neither of us had our phones on us. I thought it was a group of youths messing around at first.”

Mr Joyce asked: “You felt sick because you thought, ‘I might have done something’?”

She replied: “If I’d known now what I’d known then, I would have done something.

“As we got down the bottom, male one, he was going into a garden. The kitchen light was on and I just assumed that was where he lived, so we just carried on walking.”

A 16-year-old girl is alleged to have lured Lyrico to the park when she knew he was going to be attacked. She pleads not guilty to murder, along with two 17-year-olds boys; Kasharn Campbell, 19, of no fixed address; and Remmell Campbell-miller, 18, of Sneinton Boulevard.

The prosecution case is that all four men were involved in a plan to stab Lyrico. The trial continues