‘Innocent’ teen pals ‘chased down & knifed to death by killers armed with fearsome weapons in case of mistaken identity’

TWO "innocent" teens were chased down and stabbed to decease with "fearsome weapons" successful a lawsuit of mistaken identity, a tribunal heard.

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

Their alleged killers had wrongly identified them arsenic the culprits of an earlier attack.

They "tooled up" earlier slaughtering the schoolboys utilizing "fearsome weapons" - including 2 machetes, jurors were told.

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

Bristol Crown Court heard Mason and Max were simply walking down the thoroughfare erstwhile they were acceptable upon.

CCTV showed a radical jumping from an Audi Q2 and attacking the 2 teens connected January 27.

Both pals attempted to tally backmost towards Mason's location adjacent but were separated arsenic the pack chased them, it was said.

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.

Ray Tully KC, prosecuting, said: "The lawsuit concerns a treble murder. The Crown's lawsuit is that the 5 defendants who beryllium successful the dock are jointly liable for sidesplitting 2 young boys.

"Those 2 young boys were Mason Rist, who was aged 15 astatine the clip of his death, and Max Dixon, who was aged 16 astatine the clip of his death.

"Mason and Max were bully friends. On January 27 this year, Max called circular to Mason's location address. It was a Saturday night.

"Almost instantly upon leaving that address, arsenic they walked onto the thoroughfare they were passed by an Audi A2 car being driven by Antony Snook.

"The different 4 defendants were passengers successful his car erstwhile helium drove past the 2 boys."

Jurors heard the horror came pursuing 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 having "tooled up" with "pretty fearsome weapons".

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

Mr Tully said: "They acceptable disconnected together, they were connected a associated mission, and we accidental that was for revenge.

"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."

The 5 defendants person denied 2 counts of murder.

The proceedings continues.