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A TEENAGER who denies murdering an 18-year-old in a row in a park told the victim that “you don’t know who stabbed you,” they told the Central Criminal Court.
The teenage witness, who gave testimony via video link, told prosecutors that there was “chaos” with “everyone fighting each other,” but the uproar stopped when someone yelled “knife.”
He said he later saw the late 18-year-old Azzam Raguragui climbing a hill with the defendant behind him holding a knife in his right hand.
He said that Azzam slipped and fell on his back and the defendant stood on him.
Mr. Raguragui tried to push the defendant with his legs, the witness said, adding: “He [the accused] hit him in the leg once and then swinging down to the chest area with the knife. “
After the fight, he recalled that one of the teenagers said to the defendant, “What the hell are you doing?” before the accused, with the knife still in his hand, said to Mr. Raguragui: “You don’t remember who stabbed you.”
THE TRIAL CONTINUES
The witness said he believes the defendant later escaped.
The 17-year-old defendant pleaded guilty to manslaughter but not guilty of the murder of Azzam Raguragui on May 10, 2019 in Finsbury Park, Dundrum, Dublin.
The witness also said the fight broke out after someone, not the defendant, struck Raguragui during a conversation about a stolen bicycle.
A second teenage witness said that on the same day, Mr. Raguragui approached two members of the other group in search of a bicycle that had allegedly been stolen.
There was no assault during that conversation, he said.
The trial continues.
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