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A KNIFE that could have been used to kill a Hampshire teenager was found hidden at the home of one of those accused of his murder, a court heard.
Police discovered the flick knife inside a petrol can at the Southampton kebab shop where 19-year-old Sercan Calik lives with his parents.
He is one of four people accused of being part of a five-strong gang that attacked 18-year-old Lewis Singleton as he walked through the Woolston area of the city in the early hours of March 31 last year.
Lewis died hours after being stabbed five times during the assault, which had left him with a punctured left lung, diaphragm, and liver, and a major artery severed.
Today, the pathologist who examined Lewis told the Winchester Crown Court trial the knife discovered at Calik's Burgess Road home the day after the murder could have been the one that killed him.
Dr Deborah Cook was shown the weapon, which has a pointed 8cm blade with one sharp side.
"I am satisfied that that knife could have caused all of the injuries," she told the jury, adding that she could not rule out the possibility more than one blade had been used.
Dr Cook was asked to explain how a weapon that only has a total length of 9.6cm of metal could cause a stab wound up to 13cm deep, as one of those Lewis sustained was.
"A knife of that length could leave a track that looks longer because Mr Singleton was a young man and the chest cavity is compressible, and so the wound would appear longer," she said.
Calik, of Burgess Road, Southampton, Rikki Johnson, 19, of Honeysuckle Road, Bassett, and two youths aged 16 and 17 who cannot be named for legal reasons, all deny charges of murder and violent disorder.
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