Catch him, kill him - chant of teenagers before they murdered schoolboy'

Kodjo Yenga, 16, was ambushed by a gang after he was challenged by a single member to a oneonone fight, the Old Bailey heard.

The jury was told the pair confronted each other in a Hammersmith side street, but the gang member was given what appeared to be a Stanley knife by another boy.

Kodjo said to him: "Do you think you are a big boy because you have got a knife?"

The boy allegedly replied: "I don't care, I want you to respect me."

The Old Bailey heard that a witness saw the teenagers, said to be from the MDP gang, laughing and smiling as the A-level student lay dying on the ground following the attack.

Six boys aged between 14 and 17. who cannot be named, deny murdering Kodjo on 14 March last year.

Sir Allan Green QC, prosecuting, told the jury Kodjo was with his 14-year-old girlfriend when he was approached by one of the members of the MDP gang.

Sir Allan said that despite his girlfriend telling Kodjo not to get involved, he agreed to fight the boy on a one-on-one basis later the same day in a side street off Hammersmith Grove.

But when they met at least 10 boys and two girls appeared, and Kodjo realised it was an ambush. One boy even had his bull terrier with him, the court was told.

"It was at this stage Kodjo was running and she [his girlfriend] was shouting at him encouraging him to run," Sir Allan said. He was running backwards and at one point stumbled over a parked motorbike and the bull terrier.

Sir Allan said a witness, Deepika Kohli, was passing with her child in a pushchair when she saw Kodjo being chased out of the side road.

"Behind him was a group of 10 black boys and two girls," Sir Allan said. "She heard a few members of the group shout, 'Catch him, kill him.'"

The jury was told Miss Kohli then saw three boys catch up with Kodjo and appear to stab him in the back of his jacket, but he managed to shrug off this attack and run away.

At that moment one boy threw a trainer at Miss Kohli, which turned out to be Kodjo's. Sir Allan said that Miss Kohli witnessed the group afterwards acting "happy", laughing and smiling.

The jury heard how another witness, motorist Anthony Malony,

Ferry 'threw keys to save Sienna from paparazzi'

HOLLYWOOD star Sienna Miller was pursued by paparazzi driving their cars like "dodgems" after last year's Bafta awards, a court heard today.

Otis Ferry told West London magistrates' court the photographers were driving "like lunatics" and he feared they would cause a crash. Frustrated by the absence of police, he removed the keys from two of their cars and threw them on to the ground to stop the chase.

Ferry, 25, of Shrewsbury, the son of Roxy Music singer Bryan Ferry, denies two charges of criminal damage.

The chase occurred after Miller, who was dating Ferry's brother Isaac at the time, left Boujis nightclub in South Kensington on 12 February last year.

When the convoy of vehicles stopped at traffic lights, Ferry, who had been driving his brother's Land Rover, got out and approached the photographer in the car behind him, the court heard.

Ferry said he was "shaken" by the driving of the photographers, adding: "It was like dodgems driving."

Ferry said: "So I put my hand into the car, pulled the key out then threw it in front of his car." The case continues.

saw the gang. Mr Malony shouted at the group as he drove past, and saw one boy allegedly fighting with Kodjo between two parked cars.

The boy was grabbing Kodjo's belt and the driver thought it was a schoolboy fight.

But he became concerned when Kodjo's expression changed, Sir Allan told the jury.

Mr Malony came to Kodjo's aid as as two plainclothes policemen appeared.

Sir Allan said: "Kodjo's eyes were half-open. He was breathing but Mr Malony noticed blood on his shirt. He lifted up his shirt and saw blood everywhere and saw a stab wound to the chest."

Sir Allan, describing the injury that killed Kodjo, said a Home Office pathologist found he had died from bleeding caused by a single stab wound that entered his chest and penetrated his heart.

Kodjo, from Hammersmith, known to friends as Kizzel, was taken to New Charing Cross Hospital where he died later that day.

Three of the boys on trial for murder are 14. One is 15, one is 16 and the other is 17.

The trial continues.