LONDON, Jan. 7 (UPI) -- Six teenagers attacked a 16-year-old boy in a London park and then left him to bleed to death as they escaped by bus, a prosecutor said Thursday.
The teens are on trial in London's Old Bailey, charged with killing Nicholas Pearton, the Daily Mail reported.
Pearton was seen "running for his life" before one of his attackers stabbed him in the back, reaching his heart, the prosecuting lawyer, Edward Brown, told the jury. Brown said security cameras on a bus captured the defendants shaking hands and counting heads.
One of the alleged attackers was only 14 at the time. Several of them were wearing their school blazers and ties.
Brown said Pearton went to Home Park in southwest London because he had heard his friends were having a fight with members of a rival gang. Brown said the victim's friends disappeared, leaving him to face the other boys lone.
After he was stabbed, Pearton pushed his way into a restaurant. His mother, who had heard he was in trouble, found him there.
"In those dreadful and deeply distressing moments she saw her son lying dead or dying inside the door of the shop," Brown said.
