The weapon was found eight days after the murder
A photograph has revealed the moment a police diver recovered a knife which is believed to have been used to stab a teenager to death., 17, who died in a gang feud in Ipswich, Suffolk, on June 2 last year.
The knife, an eight inch blade, was found eight days after the murder as police searched River Gipping following witness reports of a ‘shiny object’ being thrown in the water.The trial at Ipswich Crown Court heard how all four killers were in a gang called J-Block which took its name from the Jubilee Park area of Ipswich.The gang members were enemies of a rival gang which Tavis belonged to, called Neno or IP3 after the postcode of the Nacton area of Ipswich.
The incident represented ‘a moral victory’ for the Neno group as Yenge and Davies had hidden rather than standing their ground close to their group’s “home turf”, said prosecutor Oliver Glasgow QC. The trial heard how ‘unsurprisingly’ there was no blood or DNA on the knife, but it was believed to have been used in the murder.Residents who saw the object being thrown into the water described it as being a dark-handled knife or machete and seeing ‘a flash when the blade caught the sun’.
Judge Martyn Levett lifted an order banning identification of Davies who was known as Youngz and recorded several videos for his gang Leon Glasgow, 42, of no fixed address who had used his colleague’s delivery van to take the four murderers to the scene was cleared of murder and manslaughter after he insisted he did not know what they were planning.The court heard how Tavis’ step sister Candice Sobers rushed outside to find him lying on his side with blood on his face and clothing.
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