A JURY in the retrial of a man accused of murdering a 15-year-old will continue considering its verdict tomorrow.
The jury has spent more than 19 hours deciding whether Michael-Paul Hamblett-Sewell is guilty of the murder of Kadeem Blackwood.
On Tuesday, after 12 hours, the judge in the case told the jury she would now accept a verdict on which at least 10 of them were agreed.
Kadeem died after he was shot by Callum Campbell, then 18, in Caxton Park, Sunny Hill, in November 2008. Campbell has already pleaded guilty to murder.
Hamblett-Sewell, now 25, is accused of being a party to, being behind or ordering the shooting. He denies murder.
The jury has heard during the course of the retrial that Kadeem was a member of Younger Browning Circle Terrorists and Campbell and Hamblett-Sewell, now 25, were from a rival gang called A1 Crew, from Allenton.
They had met at Caxton Park on the night of November 11, 2008, for a fist fight between Kadeem and Campbell. Members of both gangs had gone along to watch.
The prosecution say Hamblett-Sewell said something to Campbell, who then pulled the trigger of the gun he was pointing at Kadeem. Hamblett-Sewell told the jury he had told Campbell to put the gun down.
