Teenager hunted down and stabbed with machete

TWO attempted murderers hunted down and left a teenager fighting for his life in the street.

- By JADE MCELWEE [e-mail] @JadeMReporter

Tyler Bradley, Wayne Boyd, Leon Keenan and Kaya Azhar chased a 17-year-old boy before stabbing him up to 16 times with a machete in Hemlington.

They all immediately fled the area leaving the boy gravely injured in the street in the early hours of Wednesday, April 30.

On Wednesday, Bradley and Boyd were found guilty of attempted murder and Keenan and Azhar were found guilty of section 18 grievous bodily harm following a two-week trial at Teesside Crown Court.

Ebony Watt, 18, of Stone Row in Skinningrove, was found guilty of perverting the course of justice.

The Middlesbrough court heard how the boy had arrived in Hemlington by bus shortly after 2.30pm on Tuesday, April 29.

During this time, he had met with Watt while in company with another teenager. Contact between Boyd, 19, and Watt began from 11.20pm where she started making him, and later Azhar, 18, aware that the boy was in the area.

At 12.15am a chase began between Boyd, Bradley and Keenan, both aged 18, who left Fonteyn Court on a bike and travelled along Cass House Road in the direction of Corbridge Close and Cramlington Close.

Azhar arrived on an electric scooter, where footage appeared to show him encircling the boy, which led him to leap from a balcony in a desperate attempt to flee the men and avoid violence.

Further footage played to the jury showed the boy jumping over garden fences, being chased around a car park and a small, wooded area.