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By coincidence, two CCTV operators were watching the scene outside the club where crowds were milling around as police dealt with an unrelated incident and noticed the three defendants pulling at a street sign and decided to focus on them.
"That is the reason why we have so much clear and chilling footage of the events that followed," Mr Kinch said.
The cameras were filming as the trio set off through a passageway towards the car park. Seconds later they spotted the two students and launched what was to be a fatal attack. Mr Kinch said: "They were seen chatting together plainly in good humour...and the Crown's case has always been that the events that followed were far too rapid and co-ordinated for there not to have been some communication in those seconds."
Sullivan was seen approaching the pair and lunging at Mr Griffiths, shattering his jaw with a punch.
"Daniel Pollen instinctively reached out but could do nothing to protect his friend as he slumped to the floor," the barrister said. As Sullivan sauntered away, the other two began "circling" Mr Pollen in a predatory fashion.
As Onokah punched him, breaking the young man's jaw, Lynch was seen reaching into his pocket, almost certainly to pull out his knife. The student could be seen with his arms outspread in "a gesture entirely peaceful and non-aggressive".
Seconds later, Lynch delivered the fatal blow. "Mr Pollen was seen holding his chest with his right hand. At that stage, he could not have known it but the knife having pierced his heart, he had but seconds to live," he told the court.
Griffiths was also stabbed moments later. The CCTV showed Lynch lunging four times at him although two thrusts failed to penetrate. "Fortunately for him, he was falling away and collapsing to the ground as the last of those thrusts were being delivered," Mr Kinch said. The three were then seen making off in a car. The entire incident took no more than 40 seconds, with the actual violence taking just half of that. The court was told that the CCTV images helped police quickly identify those responsible and track them to Lynch's home.
But as the officers burst in through the front door they fled through the back. Although the two older defendants were soon arrested, the teenage murderer got away and remained on the run for three days.
Mr Kinch said that the youngster had a string of previous convictions dating back to when he was just 14. In the first he shot an Asian man in the leg with a ball bearing gun and racially abused him.
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