'Ten points of evidence against murder accused'

A MAN accused of the murder of teenager Eddie Kinuthia in the St Pauls area of Bristol two years ago has 10 different pieces of circumstantial evidence that incriminate him, prosecutors told the jury at his trial.

- TRISTAN CORK

Zacharia Talbert-Young is accused of Eddie's murder and also the attempted murder of another man early last year.

Prosecuting counsel Andrew Langdon began summing up the prosecution case in a trial which began almost a month ago, and has seen a wealth of circumstantial evidence which Mr Langdon said put Talbert-Young, 27, on a distinctive e-bike in the Grosvenor Triangle park in St Pauls on the night Eddie was stabbed to death.

The 19-year-old was attacked on the edge of the park and managed to make his way back to the front of a community centre, where frantic efforts to save his life failed because of the severity of the stab wounds he suffered.

He was later pronounced dead in hospital, and the attack - on July 21, 2023, shocked the community in St Pauls and across Bristol.

As the month-long trial neared its end last week, the judge ordered the jury to find another man, Paul Hayden, 22, 'not guilty' of Eddie's murder.

He was a man that the prosecution had alleged was the other person on the e-bike which police had traced crossing Bristol to the scene of the stabbing.