Gang who hunted down and knifed two innocent pals to death in gruesome case of mistaken identity are GUILTY of murder

A GANG who hunted down and knifed 2 guiltless boys to decease successful a grisly lawsuit of mistaken individuality person been recovered blameworthy of murder.

Max Dixon, 16, and Mason Rist, 15, were unwittingly embroiled successful a "postcode rivalry" successful the Bristol suburb of Knowle.

Their killers had wrongly identified them arsenic the culprits of an earlier onslaught - starring them to "tool up" with an arsenal of "fearsome weapons".

Chilling CCTV past showed the brutes chasing down the 2 teens arsenic they innocently walked down the thoroughfare together.

Both pals attempted to tally backmost towards Mason's location adjacent but were separated during the hunt.

Mason was knifed erstwhile successful the backmost and thorax - causing "unsurvivable injuries" - portion Max was stabbed erstwhile successful the abdomen.

They tragically died wrong 15 minutes of each different aft being rushed to hospital.

Antony Snook, 45, and Riley Tolliver, 18, and 3 teenage boys aged 15, 16 and 17, were jointly charged with murder.

Four teens and Snook person present been convicted pursuing a proceedings astatine Bristol Crown Court.

Jurors heard the horror unfolded connected January 27 amid a postcode "rivalry" betwixt the Knowle West and Hartcliffe areas of Bristol.

Around an hr earlier the boys were killed, a location successful Hartcliffe had been attacked by youngsters hurling bricks done a model and injuring a woman.

At 11pm, Snook, Tolliver and the 3 teen defendants near the country equipped with their stash of weapons.

They drove from Hartcliffe to Knowle West "on the hunt" for the radical they believed were liable for the onslaught connected the house.

Ray Tully KC, prosecuting, said: "As they drove past Max and Mason walking down the street, they thought they had spotted the radical liable for the earlier onslaught - oregon astatine the precise least, radical connected to it.

"They were wholly incorrect astir that. Max and Mason had perfectly thing to bash with immoderate earlier incidental and nary transportation whatsoever with those events."

Tolliver and the 15-year-old lad allegedly attacked Mason, portion the 16-year-old lad and 17-year-old lad are said to person chased Max.

The footage showed the pack speeding disconnected successful Snook's Audi arsenic Max and Mason were near dying connected the street.

The pack were remanded into custody to beryllium sentenced connected a aboriginal date.