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TEENAGER Lewis Singleton was subjected to a "raged attack" by the group that killed him, his friend has told a court.

Craig Smith was with the 18-year-old when five men who had lain in wait in a parked car on a Southampton road ambushed them in the early hours of March 31 last year.

While Mr Smith managed to escape the attackers, Lewis could not get away.

Yesterday, Mr Smith told the Winchester Crown Court trial of four people accused of Lewis' murder that as he ran he got to the end of Obelisk Road, Woolston, he turned to see his friend being circled.

"It looked like a raged attack, and they didn't care what they were doing," said Mr Smith, 19.

"They threw quite a few punches and, as Lewis went down to the floor, one of them stepped back and that's when they launched a kick at him."

As Mr Smith was then approached by one of the five, who was wearing a hoodie pulled tight around his face, Lewis ran past him.

"He carried on running past me and said I've been stabbed, I've been stabbed'," he said.

Mr Smith caught up with his friend in nearby Condor Close, where Lewis collapsed.

Having raised the alarm he went to Lewis's side, and saw headlights from the same silver Vauxhall Vectra from which the ambush had come.

Mr Smith said the same car had followed them the wrong way down a one-way street minutes before the attack.

Under cross-examination, more details emerged of the hours leading up to the attack.

Mr Smith was accused of "picking and choosing" his evidence after being forced to admit he and Lewis had been refused entry to a house party after leaving the Grove Tavern pub.

Oba Nsugbe, defending Rikki Johnson - who along with Sercan Calik and two youths denies murder - forced Mr Smith to accept he and Lewis had also run away from police that night.

Mr Nsugbe accused the witness of having chased his client with a knife earlier in the evening, which Mr Smith said was absolutely untrue.

Mr Smith also denied trying to start a fight on Itchen Bridge that night with one of the defendants who accused him of being racist, which Mr Smith insisted was not correct.

Johnson, 19, of Honeysuckle Road, Bassett, Calik, 19, of Burgess Road, Bassett, and the youths aged 16 and 17, who cannot be named for legal reasons, also deny charges of violent disorder.

Proceeding.

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