Suspects burned designer clothes and tried to flee to France in lorry after stabbing

Suspects burned their designer clothing in a park and fled to France as illegal stowaways on a lorry after a man was stabbed in the heart, a court has heard. The victim was left with life-threatening injuries after fighting broke out in a nightclub before spilling out into the street. Seven men - Milne Critchley, Adam Draper, Lee Duffy, Jordan Kinsella, Eugene Mason-Lamb, George Miller and Cameron Quinn - and a 17-year-old boy, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, went on trial at today, Wednesday, accused of offences including wounding with intent and violent disorder in connection with the early hours brawl.

Steven Ball told a jury of nine men and three women during the prosecution's opening that Anthony Dodson was found collapsed at the junction of Church Street and Whitechapel at around 5am on December 27 last year, having been stabbed twice in the heart and twice more near to the armpit. The 21-year-old was not breathing and had gone into cardiac arrest, but his "life was saved" thanks to the intervention of medics. He had earlier been out celebrating Boxing Night with a group of friends, some of whom also suffered serious injuries during the altercation.



One, Alexander Murphy, was stabbed to his lower back while another, Kia Robinson, was struck to the head and left with a "large gash". A fourth casualty, Samuel Finlay, "got away relatively unscathed" after apparently having a bottle of Disaronno thrown at his head inside the bar. They and a group also including .