A gang of teenage muggers stabbed a hotel chef to death for just £12 as he celebrated his 30th birthday with his girlfriend, the Old Bailey heard.
Krzysztof Rusek was knifed through the heart in the early hours last June after the four attackers demanded cash from him and his friends as they walked home through a park in Fulham.
The Polish national died in hospital four hours later from internal bleeding, while a friend only escaped serious injury because a knife blade hit the bank cards in his wallet, the jury was told.
Ruairi Bicknell and Akeen Salako, both 18, along with two 17-year-olds, fled the scene and later changed their clothes, the court heard. The gang had been “looking for victims” in a park near the West Kensington Estate, said prosecutor Simon Denison, QC. “They were all hooded, all carrying knives, and all intent on using those knives to commit robberies together.”
The four defendants, all of West Kensington, deny murder.
The trial continues.
