On December 5, 2014, Joey Adesina was tracked, chased, cornered in a
dead-end street in Padbury Court, off Bethnal Green road and stabbed to
death by two men, Lincoln Olaribigbe, 23, and Georgie Philips, 20,
according to prosecutors in court yesterday Tuesday, September 29.
The 15-year-old had been with a group of friends in Hoxton when he was
chased by men from a blue Mercedes, the jury was told. He hid with a
friend behind a parked car in the dead-end street but was spotted,
pinned against a fence, then dragged away and knifed.
Adesina from Dagenham staggered to a local
convenience store where he collapsed and died. George Phillips and
Lincoln Olaribigbe deny murdering the boy.
Anthony Orchard QC, prosecuting, said it was not known who had actually
committed the stabbing and the motivation "may never be completely
clear".
But everyone in the Mercedes had been part of a joint plan to attack
whoever they could catch in Joel’s group, so they were "in it together".
Mr Orchard told the jury that earlier in the evening a silver Astra,
linked to Olaribigbe, had driven repeatedly at Joel’s group outside a
pub. CCTV catches them jump out of the way and Joel throws a rock at the
car.
Some of the group, including Joel, had knives themselves, the court
heard.
As the group headed off, Olaribigbe transferred to the Mercedes, linked
to Phillips, to search for them.
"Joel and his group of friends had been tracked and chased by two cars
at different times in the hours and minutes leading up to the stabbing,"
said Mr Orchard.
Near the Bethnal Green Road the car screeched onto the pavement by them
and they ran in different directions. Joel and his friend "ran into an
apparent dead end road and hid behind a parked silver car," said Mr
Orchard.
"Two men were standing by the Mercedes which had its headlights
pointing down the dead end. The two men were saying: ‘Where did they go?
(Joel’s friend) asked him if the men had gone. Unfortunately Joel poked
his head over the top of the silver car to look and one of the men said
words to the effect of ‘that’s one of them.’"
The following day the blue Mercedes was found burned out in an Islington car park.
The case continues.
Source: Evening Standard