Stabbed teen tells Wealdstone murder trial 'I thought I was dying' (From Times Series)

Stabbed teen tells Wealdstone murder trial 'I thought I was dying'

9:20am Wednesday 11th November 2009

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A SOMALI teenager thought he was going to die after being stabbed and beaten while just yards away his friend was murdered, a court heard.

Abdiwahab Guiled, 19, told the Old Bailey he cried “it's not me” as he was repeatedly pummeled and knifed twice in the back and buttocks in what the prosecution say was a revenge attack.

When the beating was over he found friend Hassan Kul Hawadleh, 19, in his dying moments, screaming for help on the forecourt of the Total garage, in High Street, Wealdstone, on February 19.

Mr Guiled said: “He was lying on the floor holding his chest, the left side of his chest. One of his legs, I think it was his left leg, was up against the wall.

“I didn't know what was going on until I heard him crying out and telling me he had been stabbed.”

Mr Guiled staggered up to a nearby motorist looking for help but was offered none and told the court “I looked at him in shock because I thought I was dying”.

Prosecutors say the killing of Mr Hawadleh was the final, lethal act in a week of violent feuding that began with a fight on Monday, February 16.

Mr Guiled's cousin Wasarme Guiled had a punch up with 19-year-old Abdul Khan, of Enderley Road, Wealdstone, and Onochie Madekwe, 33, of Buck Lane, Kingsbury, it is claimed.

When Abdiwahab Guiled saw Mr Khan walking onto the forecourt with a knife three days later he stood motionless, paralysed by shock, until he was attacked by three men, jurors heard.

He claims Mr Madekwe, nicknamed Ochie, and two other men since shown in CCTV evidence to be Andrew Spence and Michael Anthony Boyde, landed the first blows, knocking him to the ground.

He says Mr Khan joined the onslaught later.

The witness said: “Kicks and punches reigned down on me. I curled up to protect my head and organs. Every time I felt kicks in my face or the front of my body I turned my back to protect myself.”

He added: “The punches were landing all over my body but the kicks were mainly to my head. They were hard. That's why I kept saying 'it's not me'.

“I had no involvement in the dispute. I just didn't understand why I was being attacked in such a way.”

Mr Guiled told jurors he did not realise he had been stabbed until he felt “numbness” down the left side of his body where the blade landed.

He said: “That's when I felt this warmness going down the back of my leg. I felt the back of my jeans and my back where the numbness was. I saw a lot of blood and began to panic.”

The teenager, who said he thought he was dying, began frantically hopping to the petrol station shop where he eventually collapsed in front of an ice cream box.

The teenager says he does not know who dealt the knife wounds, but he spent the next five days in hospital and needed surgery on his buttocks.

He was also left with a swollen face, a chipped tooth and such severe bruising that he continued finding new ones for months after the incident, the court heard.

Mr Madekwe, Mr Khan, Mr Spence, 22, of Ealing, and Mr Boyde, 37, of Willesden, deny murder.

They also deny attempted murder and grievous bodily harm (GBH) with intent for the alleged attack on Abdiwahab Guiled.

Mr Madekwe denies violent disorder in relation to an attack on Wasarme Guiled earlier the same evening.

The trial continues.

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