cleared part-way through the trial<\/a> when the judge found there was not enough evidence to connect the 22-year-old to the incident.<\/p>\nTalbert-Young and Hayden were also on trial for the attempted murder of 19-year-old Nathan Williams, who was stabbed in Lawrence Hill in February 2024 – seven months after Mr Kinuthia’s death.<\/p>\n
The jury found them both guilty of attempted murder.<\/p>\n
A third man, Remi Hitchcock, 30, of Easton, was charged with assisting an offender in relation to the death of Mr Kinuthia, but was found not guilty.<\/p>\n
Mr Kinuthia’s family, who had been in court throughout the trial, let out cries of relief when the verdicts were read out. <\/p>\n
His mother was heard thanking and making a heart gesture towards the jury with her hands, with police in court also visibly moved by the reaction. <\/p>\n
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Eddie Kinuthia pictured with his mum Irene<\/p>\n
During the trial the jury were told 150 people had been attending a community event in St Pauls on 21 July when two masked men – one of which was Talbert-Young – dressed in black arrived on an electric bike and Mr Kinuthia was stabbed.<\/p>\n
Mr Kinuthia was stabbed as many as six times, the trial was told, and it was a wound to his leg that proved to be fatal.<\/p>\n
Talbert-Young never revealed his motive for killing Mr Kinuthia, but the trial heard of a longstanding rivalry between the 1-6s and the 2-4s.<\/p>\n
Talbert-Young was closely associated with east Bristol’s 1-6 group while Mr Kinuthia was regularly seen associating with members of the 2-4s, which is linked to St Pauls.<\/p>\n
“Over the years there’s been rivalries and retaliation attacks between groups of young men on the east side of Bristol and similar groups more focused around St Pauls,” Det Ch Insp Mark Almond, from Avon and Somerset Police, explained.<\/p>\n
He described Mr Kinuthia as a “popular young man” who knew a lot of people in St Pauls.<\/p>\n
“He did have friends who were involved in some of that sort of cohort rivalry in the area,” he added.<\/p>\n
Det Ch Insp Almond said there were “no winners” in this case.<\/p>\n
“Eddie Kinuthia has lost his life,” he said. “That has absolutely traumatised his family, a number of his friends, people in the community.”<\/p>\n
After his death, Mr Kinuthia’s family said he was “a pure soul” with “the biggest of hearts”<\/a>.<\/p>\n“His love was widespread and appreciated by so many people who had ever met him. He had a great presence and the brightest of smiles,” they added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sarah Turnnidge, Ross Pollard and Briana Millett,Bristol Handout Eddie Kinuthia, 19, died after being stabbed near his home…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303462,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":{"0":"post-303461","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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