Teenager testifies in Steede murder trial
Closed-circuit television footage of a 16-year-old girl accused of the murder of a Bermudian teenager in England was shown to a jury yesterday.
The CCTV footage, taken from several cameras, showed the girl, one of five youngsters accused of the knife killing of Lyrico Steede in a children’s play park in the Nottingham suburb of Stock Well in February, just after the murder.
The teenager, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was seen walking through the streets of Bulwell and waiting at a stop before she boarded a bus.
Peter Joyce QC, for the Crown, earlier told the court that the girl had said in a police interview that a group of men, “ran Rico down and stole the iPad she had borrowed from a friend”.
Mr Joyce asked Pauline Jarvis, a police CCTV co-ordinator, what the girl appeared to have in her hand at the bus stop.
Ms Jarvis said: “An iPad type item.”
The court heard earlier that the girl persuaded Mr Steede, who was 17, to travel to the park from his home in nearby Bulwell.
He was chased by four men and stabbed repeatedly after he stumbled on a railing and fell.
The court heard that the 16-year-old girl told police she did not recognise any of the attackers and went home after she was unable to find Mr Steede.
Kasharn Campbell, 19, of no fixed abode, and Remmell Campbell-Miller, 18, from Sneinton Boulevard, as well as two 17-year-old boys, who cannot be named for legal reasons, are also in the dock charged with the murder of Mr Steede, who was attacked on February 13.
Mr Steede died in hospital five days later.
Earlier, Mr Joyce told the court that the four other defendants had lured Mr Steede to the park with the girl as an accomplice.
The jury saw CCTV footage of Mr Steede walking to the bus station in Bulwell.
Later film clips showed him walking to the playground with the girl.
Footage from another camera appeared to show Mr Steede being chased by four men.
Mr Joyce told the court that the girl was aware that Mr Steede “was to be attacked”.
The jury heard that she had arranged to meet Mr Steede, who had moved to England to live with family, after she talked to him on social media sites Snapchat and Instagram.
The trial continues.