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HAMPSHIRE teenager Lewis Singleton was stabbed five times during the attack that killed him, a court heard.

The pathologist who examined the 18-year-old said today that three of the wounds were potentially fatal and the injuries had caused "massive bleeding."

Lewis received nearly four times his normal blood volume in replacement units and other fluids as doctors battled in vain to save his life on March 31 last year, Winchester Crown Court was told.

This morning Dr Deborah Cook told the court that Lewis received six wounds during the attack, which happened as he walked along Obelisk Road in Woolston, Southampton, with a friend in the early hours of that morning.

One wound went right through his upper left arm leaving entry and exit wounds.

Another pierced the skin near his left armpit.

A third went 13 centimetres into the left side of his chest, and fourth went eight centimetres into the right side of his chest.

A further blow went into his right abdomen.

The knife punctured his left lung, diaphragm and liver, and severed the major artery carrying blood to his right leg.

"Three of the wounds were potentially fatal but in this case I gave the cause of death as a stab wound to the abdomen," said Dr Cook.

She added that Lewis had also suffered several injuries to his head and arms including cuts, bruises and grazes, a badly swollen right eye and internal bleeding in his brain which may have been caused by a blunt weapon.

"I don't believe that a punch would do this, not the tearing to the eye," said Dr Cook.

"It would be unusual for a punch to tear the skin like that."

Rikki Johnson, 19, of Honeysuckle Road, Bassett, Sercan Calik, 19, of Burgess Road, Bassett, and two youths, aged 16 and 17, who cannot be named for legal reasons, all deny charges of murder and violent disorder.

Proceeding.

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