A Bristol Crown Court trial has heard that a teenager fatally stabbed Mikey Roynon with a “zombie knife” in an act of self-defence during a house party, according to the defendant’s version of events presented to the court.
The accused, one of three 16-year-olds facing trial for Mikey’s murder, asserts that he stabbed Roynon in the neck after being confronted by a group of armed teenagers. All three defendants, whose identities are protected by legal provisions, have pleaded not guilty to the charge of murder.
Christopher Quinlan KC, the prosecuting counsel, informed the jury that the accused teenager, referred to as Boy C, had submitted a document to the court detailing his version of the incident. Quinlan stated that Boy C would claim he wielded a knife in self-defence and that Mikey had initiated the altercation by brandishing a knife toward Boy B and then himself.
