Two men alleged to have carried out a "frenzied" attack in a Gravesend street failed to stop when the victim fell on top of a young child in a pushchair, a court heard.

Neil Davies was walking along Milton Road on February 10 when he was repeatedly punched and stabbed by two men, before the attackers fled the scene leaving him on the ground bleeding from his wounds.

Brandon Gurr, 18, of no fixed address, Mojolaoluwa Oluleye, also 18, of Meadow Road, Gravesend, and Peter Loring, 20, of Hawthorn Road, Strood, all deny attempted murder.

The jury of four men and eight women retired to consider their verdicts earlier today (August 18).

In closing statements yesterday the jury at Maidstone Crown Court was told Gurr intended to get revenge because he wrongly believed Mr Davies had stolen £700 from him.

Rowan Jenkins, prosecuting, said: "This was the wrong place for Mr Davies to be in at the time because he was the partner of Mr Gurr’s girlfriend’s mother and he was the one getting the blame for this money disappearing.

"You can see when Mr Gurr went upstairs how he reacted to the brief disappearance of the cash with a tirade of threats, just extremely aggressive behaviour."

Gurr is alleged to have told Mr Davies: "I’ll stab you for fun, do you think I care about you?"

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Mr Jenkins added: "This is a man who has a thing about knives."

Gurr is accused of following the victim to Milton Road, while Oluleye allegedly came from the other direction having been dropped off by Loring.

Before the start of their trial, Gurr admitted an alternative charge of wounding Mr Davies with intent to cause GBH, and one count of having a bladed article.

Mr Jenkins told the jury Gurr used a "three to four inch" knife to stab Mr Davies around nine times, while Oluleye dealt out blow after blow.

The jury heard one of the witnesses was in Milton Road with her young son and a 17-month-old baby in a pram when the attack took place.

Mr Jenkins said: "Mr Davies is able to slightly get away, but he only stumbles in to this push chair with a terrified child and parent.

"Picture him actually lying on top of this young child whilst the stabbing is going on.

"Do these two stop? No they are so focused that they fail to see or fail to care at all about what is going on.

"If he was not trying to kill this man by stabbing him again and again with a knife what exactly was he trying to do?

"It only seems to be that these two stop when these bystanders, several of them shout out to stop."

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Defending Gurr, Charles Langley said while the defendant has accepted having a knife and causing Mr Davies’ wounds, he denies the charge of attempted murder.

He suggested the planning of the attack was more consistent with "beating someone up" than anything more serious, and things changed when he realised Mr Davies was also carrying a knife.

The knife used in the attack was never found, but another weapon was found at the scene without any forensic link to the defendants or traces of blood.

Mr Langley refuted the claims of the eyewitness who said the stabbing continued when Mr Davies fell on to the pram.

He added: "It was a terrifying experience and it does affect the memory."

Three days after the stabbing Gurr is alleged to have phoned Mr Davies’s girlfriend, Clare Flame, and offered to pay Mr Davies £1,000 if he dropped the charges.

Gurr denies perverting the course of justice.

Oluleye and Loring also deny the same wounding with intent charge admitted by Gurr.

Loring denies assisting an offender by driving Gurr and Oluleye away.

The trial continues.