Overview
- Three teenagers — Layton Lightfoot, Jesse Reaney and Charlie Wilcock — deny charges at Teesside Crown Court over the death of David Cuthbert on January 10.
- This week (July 21–23) jurors were shown phone and CCTV clips that prosecutors say record parts of the assault and were shared on Snapchat.
- A pathologist told the court the victim suffered a stab wound to the left chest that penetrated his heart and was inflicted with severe force.
- Courtroom evidence included a police body-worn camera recording of Mr Cuthbert’s daughter calling a defendant after she saw the clip and confronting him by Snapchat.
- Prosecutors also relied on a robbery victim’s testimony and on phone data, CCTV and an electronic tag to place the three together before the attack and the trial is continuing.