A YOUTH who stabbed another teenager to death after confronting him in the street has been convicted of murder.

Stelios Paraschakis, aged 19, of Rushdene, Thamesmead, was found guilty by an Old Bailey jury of killing Julian "Busta" Knight on July 15 last year.

His girlfriend Amy Curran, aged 18, of Ferndyke Road, Thamesmead, was found guilty of affray and perverting the course of justice.

Neighbour Paul Spouse, aged 28, of Tanhurst Walk, Thamesmead, was accused of hitting Julian and another boy, Daniel Cato, around the head with a baseball bat.

But Spouse was cleared of committing grievous bodily harm with intent, wounding with intent and affray, and walked free from court.

Paraschakis and Curran were remanded in custody and will be sentenced on June 8.

The court heard how Julian had been out with some of the Thamesmead Boyz.

Two of them, Brian Long and Mark Gardener, who had been drinking heavily, set fire to a garden fence belonging to Paraschakis's mother.

Long, 19, who is serving a three-year sentence for assault, was a rival of Paraschakis.

The court heard there was a long-running feud between the two.

Paraschakis armed himself with two kitchen knives and went looking for Long and the others he thought were responsible for the fire.

But when he confronted them in Overton Road, Thamesmead, it was Julian who was stabbed in the jugular vein.

In a statement Julian's mother, Michelle Geecock described how she cradled her dying son after finding him lying in the street drenched in blood.

She said: "When Stelios stabbed Busta, he stabbed us all and the knife is still in us, twisting away."

After the stabbing, Paraschakis fled to Greece with the help of his mother Teressa Beverley.

But his Greek father persuaded him to return to the UK and give himself up.

After the killing, members of the Thamesmead Boyz posted footage of Julian's last hours on YouTube, showing the group drinking and joking.