Teenager accused of coca murder -Cola Jahziah states that fatal injuries were not deliberate

A teenager accused of killing Jahziah Coke, 13, said that the alleged victim picked up a knife and threatened him before a row for “missing cannabis” caused a non -deliberate chest injury.

The young man, who cannot be identified by his age, told the jury that he was “injured and traumatized” after grabbing Jahziah’s hands, twisting the knife to the ground, and then seeing blood.

The defendant also told Wolverhampton Crown Court that he did not have the knife in his own hands and scored 999 to summon the paramedics, just leaving the property once he believed that Jahziah was dead.

The prosecutors claim that the defendant inflicted a six -inch stab wound in Jahziah, fled on the fences and then caught a bus to a friend’s house to play video games.

The trial, now in its third week, was told that Jahziah was found dead in the hall of a house in Oldbury by paramedics that responded to a call to 999 on the afternoon of August 29 of last year, after having suffered a chest injury that “was almost completely cut” one of its ribs.

Giving evidence behind a curtain that protected him from the press and the public on Tuesday, the defendant said he had seen Jahziah in possession of an estimated knife that is “almost as wide as the witness box” weeks before the fatal incident.

When claiming that Jahziah was in possession of a different knife that had approximately one foot in the afternoon of August 29, the defendant said he had tried to calm a discussion about the lost cannabis also involving another young man.

Jahziah picked up the smallest knife, which he had not seen before, said the defendant and told the jury: “He began to threaten me.

“He tried to go for me. He was a little close to him and approached.”

Asked by defense lawyer Paul Lewis KC what he had done next, the defendant said: “He grabbed his hand, I got them both.

“I twisted the knife to the ground.”

After being invited by Mr. Lewis to tell the jurors what had happened later, the young man continued: “I don’t know. I just remember seeing blood and then … yes … blood in my hands.”

Lewis asked the teenager what he remembered how the fatal injury had happened.

The young man replied: “I don’t know. Everything happened too fast.”

By denying that he had deliberately stabbed Jahziah in the chest or that he had removed the knife, the child added that he only realized that the 13 -year -old boy had been injured when he began to see blood.

The defendant, who scored 999 at 4.05 pm to inform that someone had been stabbed, said he was “injured and traumatized” at this time and left the scene because “he did not know what to do.”

The details of the address where Jahziah was found cannot be published due to a court order.

A coacked of about 40 years, who cannot be appointed either, denies helping a criminal. The trial continues.