A learner driver’s passenger described the ‘chaotic’ scenes as she witnessed the immediate aftermath of the stabbing that claimed Alex Innes’ life.

Fatima Rocha was supervising the learner driver in the early hours of November 13 last year as they drove down Walton Street towards the Love Jericho cocktail bar.

She told police in a statement that was read to jurors in the trial of four men accused of murdering Alex Innes that she saw a group of men on the pavement near the Walton Street bar.

"At first, I was not sure if they were just drunk or behaving aggressively as I could see arms waving, arms in the air,” she said.

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Ms Rocha, who could hear shouting and swearing as they approached the group, added: “It was all very chaotic.” Fearing that the situation was getting ‘dangerous’, she asked her companion to drive faster.

CCTV showed Mr Innes run across Walton Street from a camera ‘blindspot’ at the junction with Walton Crescent and in front of the path of the vehicle in which Ms Rocha was the passenger.

The group of men moved into the road and, although she did not think they touched the car, Ms Rocha told detectives: “I could see they were close.”

A number of black men ‘chased’ the white male she later learned from news reports was Alex Innes, the jury heard.

Prosecutors say that Michael Oluyitan, Bradley Morton and Keyarno Johnson-Allen were the three who followed Mr Innes down the road towards Oxford University Press’ headquarters, while alleged stabber Greg Muinami remained behind.

Ms Rocha’s friend pressed the SOS button in his car, getting through to a police 999 call-handler. In the rear-view mirror, she said she could see Mr Innes collapse to the ground.

They spun the car around and parked up, with Ms Rocha getting out to see if she could be of any assistance.

"I could see immediately he was badly hurt," she said.

There was a man holding Mr Innes' head, who she said asked her if a cracked black iPhone next to Alex 'was Alex's phone'.

Ms Rocha told police: "Another male picked up the phone and passed it to the male holding Alex's head, who put the phone in his pocket."

Later, after paramedics and police had arrived, she said she saw a man talking to another black man with dreadlocks who had been part of the group they passed earlier outside Love Jericho.

The dreadlocked man said 'bro, I need to move my car', she told the police. The car, which she photographed and into which she saw the man get, was a red vehicle.

Jurors have previously been told that Morton was driving the red hatchback that night. The red car was seen on CCTV driving north up Walton Street and away from the police cordon.

Greg Muinami, 19, of Cranham Street, Michael Oluyitan, 19, of Waynflete Road, Bradley Morton, 19, of Cumberlege Close, and Keyarno Johnson-Allen, 19, of Furlong Close, deny murder, manslaughter and possession of a bladed article. The trial continues.

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