A FORMER gang member has gone on trial for the murder of 15-year-old Kadeem Blackwood.
Michael-Paul Hamblett-Sewell, 25, is accused of being "a party" to the shooting dead of the teenager in Caxton Park in Sunnyhill. Hamblett-Sewell, of Marlborough Road, Allenton, denies murder.
A jury was sworn-in this morning at Nottingham Crown Court. The trial is expected to last about two weeks.
Kadeem was shot in the chest in Caxton Street Recreation Ground, on November 11, 2008.
Callum Campbell, who was 19 at the time, has already admitted shooting the teenager.
