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A 16-year-old boy was killed in a gang attack in which two dogs were used as weapons to bring down and savage victims, a court heard today.
Seyi Ogunyemi died in Larkhall Park, south London, after being stabbed six times in April last year, the Old Bailey was told.
His 17-year-old friend was knifed nine times and was lucky to survive the attack, in which both youths also suffered apparent dog bites, jurors heard.
Brian Altman QC, prosecuting, told the court: 'What was so unusual if not unique about this case is that in the initial stages of the attack both these dogs were deployed as weapons.
'At the time of the attack both dogs were unleashed, and chased and then brought down and savaged their victims, giving their human masters an advantage, enabling them then to access their victims in order to stab them with knives.'
Mr Altman said the dogs used in the attack were an adult male Staffordshire bull terrier-bull mastiff cross named 'perhaps not unsuitably' Tyson, and an adult female Brindle Staffordshire terrier called Mia.
Tyson was owned by one of three alleged killers, Chrisdian Johnson, and Mia by another, Darcy Menezes, the court heard.
Chrisdian Johnson, 22, and his brother Shane Johnson, 20, both of south Lambeth, south London, along with Menezes, 18, of Clapham, south London, each deny murder and attempted murder.
Mr Altman told the court Seyi and the other youth were both found critically injured in the park on the evening of April 27 last year.
One of the stab wounds had struck Seyi's aorta and despite emergency surgery at the scene he died, while his friend 'by pure good fortune' survived.
Two others who had been with them were also stabbed, the court heard.
A police investigation revealed that two groups, each of about six youths, aged 15 to 20, wearing hoodies, some possibly masked, had been in the area of the Lansdowne Green estate earlier that evening, the court heard.
'Witnesses spoke of both of these groups as being on a mission or as having a common purpose,' said Mr Altman.
The two gangs had been 'patrolling' the estate before merging to form the 'attacking group' at the entrance to the park, the court heard.
Mr Altman said the victim was in a group of six from the nearby Stockwell Gardens estate who had come into the park.
'It was here that the attacking group confronted them with quite devastating consequences,' he said.
'The attack was described by one shocked onlooker as vicious and as mirroring the behaviour of a pack of wild animals.
'The twist to the story of this case is that the victims were attacked not only by the attackers but also by dogs. Seyi Ogunyemi was stabbed to death therefore in what was a quite deliberate and planned attack.'
Mr Altman said all three defendants were 'both present and participating in the general attack albeit in different ways'.
'They were not alone. There were clearly others who, despite a thorough police investigation, have not been identified or caught.'
The trial was adjourned.


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