Teen murder trial: accused said he would 'stain' Luis Guembes, Guildford jury told

A teenage defendant allegedly told a school friend he would "stain" Luis Guembes days before the 15-year-old was murdered in Stoke Park, Guildford.

Teen murder trial: 'stain' threat made days before Guildford park killing

A teenager accused of murdering 15-year-old Luis Guembes told a school friend he was "gonna stain this yout" days before the attack, jurors at Guildford Crown Court have heard, bbc.co.uk reports.

The slang term, the witness explained during a police interview played to the court, means to kill someone — a definition he said he had encountered previously on social media. He added, however, that he believed the defendant was joking or being sarcastic at the time, describing him as a "happy, non-aggressive, peaceful guy".

Two teenagers, who cannot be named because of their age, are on trial accused of murdering Guembes in Stoke Park, Guildford in January. Both were aged 15 and 16 at the time of the incident and are now 16. Both deny the murder charge.

They also face charges of conspiracy to rob and possession of a bladed article. One of the defendants has pleaded guilty to the possession charge.

The court has previously heard that the defendants "agreed to rob" Guembes in order to settle "a debt he owed concerning a broken mobile phone". The witness, interviewed by Det Con Rob Franklin in April, said the defendant had been "quite angry" about the phone but had "got over it". When asked whether he thought the teenager intended to do anything serious, the witness replied: "No." He said he had never seen the defendant being "violent towards anybody."

The witness also told the defence counsel that the term "stain" can additionally mean to rob, and that, as far as he was aware, the defendant did not know Guembes personally. He told police the broken phone was linked to a blood sugar monitor used for diabetes.

No challenge was made to the witness's evidence by the court.

Jurors were later shown images of a pair of trainers recovered from the home of one of the defendants, which were found to carry traces of blood. DNA profiles from those stains matched Luis Guembes, the court was told. DNA consistent with Guembes was also found on stains of apparent blood on a soap dish.

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