Schoolboy Thomas Devlin ‘stabbed nine times’
Schoolboy Thomas Devlin was stabbed at least nine times, his murder trial has been told.
Nigel Brown, 26, from Whitewell Road and Gary Taylor, 23, from Mountcollyer Avenue, deny murder.
A pathologist testified Thomas Devlin died from stab wounds to the chest in in north Belfast in August 2005.
The jury was also shown CCTV footage from a block of flats on the Shore Road which showed the two defendants’ movements before and after the murder.
The two accused also face attempted murder charges over an attack on Thomas’s friend.
The schoolboys were walking along the Somerton Road beside St Patrick’s school when they were attacked. A third boy managed to escape.
The pathologist said that two of the stab wounds damaged 15-year-old Thomas’s aorta – the main artery to his heart – and a lung.
He said Thomas had been stabbed four times in the back, twice in the arm, and once in the left eye, abdomen and hip.
He added that it was possible that the wounds to the Thomas’s hands had been caused when he raised his arms in self-defence.
The case continues.
