Boy, 16, told friend of street killing, murder trial hears
A 16-year-old boy told a friend that he and an accomplice had murdered a Polish man in the street, a court heard.
Lukasz Furmanek, aged 24, was killed and Radoslaw Dudek left clinging to life after both were stabbed in Handsworth.
Birmingham Crown Court heard the schoolboy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, confessed to a friend a day after the stabbings that he and Abdullah Atiqzoy, of Elizabeth Crescent, Oldbury, were responsible for the killing and that he 'didn't give a f***' about what he had done.
Both Atiqzoy and the boy deny murder and attempted murder. Feizullah Atiqzoy, 24, of Swan Crescent, Oldbury, has pleaded not guilty to assisting an offender.
The friend told police he had met up with the boy and Abdullah Atiqzoy - also known by his nickname A-Dot - in a Birmingham park the following day and said they admitted carrying out the attack.
However, when questioned about the contents of statement in court, the 19-year-old witness, who also cannot be named, then denied the meeting in the park ever happened.
Mr Furmanek died in just 31 seconds after being stabbed in Grove Lane. The court previously heard he was the victim of a random act of violence.
Reading the witness statement to the court, Mr John Butterfield, prosecuting, said: "We were just talking, just the three of us. (The boy) then said he was worried he had killed someone. He actually used the words we've murdered someone. I didn't believe them and thought it was joke."
The court heard that the friend told police how it was only when he checked a news website and saw there had been a stabbing in Grove Lane that he began to take them seriously.
The statement continued: "I asked them both what happened. A-Dot said a guy who was drunk came from behind and punched them in the face. His eyes went blurry and black and when he opened them he was on the other side of the road and the guy was ready to hit him again.
"A-Dot said he pulled out a knife and stabbed him. (The boy) said he stabbed the other guy twice. A-Dot said he was scared and worried about it. I thought (the boy) was still drunk. He told me he was not scared and didn't give a f***. He told me the man he stabbed was Polish."
However, the boy later admitted he was scared, the witness said in his statement. It also said the pair had got the knives from another friend's kitchen as they had been warned about a 'dangerous gang' in the area and wanted to protect themselves.
"I was shocked when I heard what they had done but I was not bothered myself because I had not done anything," the statement concluded.
The witness continually denied what he had said in his statement actually happened and told the jury he 'must have made it up' because he was high. The trial continues.
