Eddie Kinuthia's alleged killers 'motivated by Bristol's postcode rivalry' jury told

Eddie Kinuthia's alleged killers 'motivated by Bristol's postcode rivalry' jury told View 3 Images

Two men accused of murdering Eddie Kinuthia in St Pauls were 'motivated' by the ongoing conflict between ‘rival factions’ in Bristol’s so-called ‘postcode wars’, Bristol Crown Court has heard. The two were ‘closely associated’ with the East Bristol ‘faction’ the 1-6s, and travelled into St Pauls to kill the 19-year-old in an attack ‘which otherwise appears to have been random in nature’, the jury has been told.

On the second day of the trial of Zachariah Talbert-Young and Paul Hayden, prosecutor Andrew Langdon concluded his opening statement, and told the jury that he would show all the evidence they need to be sure that the two men were guilty of the murder of Eddie King, and of a separa