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Footage shows the final moments of aspiring drill rapper Mikey Roynon before he was stabbed to death by a teenager with a zombie knife at a house party.
The youth, identified for the first time today as Shane Cunningham, 16, fatally stabbed Roynon, also 16, in the back of the neck during a row in the garden, jurors were told.
Cunningham was convicted of murder in March while two friends were convicted of manslaughter after being acquitted of the more serious charge.
But the judge only lifted reporting restrictions protecting the defendants’ identities after they were sentenced at Bristol Crown Court.
Jurors were shown CCTV footage from a bus, which showed the three defendants arriving in Bath for the party after travelling from Wiltshire.
Mikey Roynon, from Bristol, was knifed in the back of the neck at a house on Eastfield Avenue, Bath on June 10 last year
CCTV footage shows the three defendants arriving in Bath for the party after travelling from Wiltshire
What appears to be sharp objects can be seen beneath the defendants' tops
In the footage, what appeared to be sharp objects were shown beneath the defendants’ tops - which the prosecution said showed the boys arrived at the party armed.
A teenager, who was also at the party and gave evidence during the trial, said Mikey told him he thought he was going to die after being stabbed.
The two co-accused, Cartel Bushnell and