A teenage thug who repeatedly knifed a man in the street after threatening to stab him “for fun” has been convicted of attempted murder.

Brandon Gurr, 18, is now facing a lengthy sentence, along with Mojolaoluwa Oluleye, also 18, who was cleared of attempted murder but convicted of wounding with intent.

Judge Charles Macdonald QC adjourned sentence for reports until October 2, but warned: “Significant custody obviously is inevitable.”

The unanimous verdicts were met with silence in the public gallery when returned by the jury of eight women and four men.

Gurr, of no fixed address, denied attempting to murder Neil Davies but admitted wounding with intent. He also denied perverting the course of justice but was convicted.

Oluleye, known as Hustle, of Meadow Road, Gravesend, denied both attempted murder and wounding with intent.

Peter Loring, 20, of Hawthorn Road, Strood, was cleared of both charges by direction of the judge. The jury acquitted him of assisting an offender and he was discharged.

Gurr, who attended Northfleet Technology College, and Oluleye ambushed the victim in Milton Road, Gravesend, just before 12noon on February 10.

Gurr then launched a “sustained and premeditated” knife attack.

Mr Davies suffered multiple stab wounds to his chest and upper body and needed surgery at King’s College Hospital in London.

A mum and her two young children, aged three and 17 months, and a man who had just collected his three-year-old son from nursery school were among several passers-by who witnessed the stabbing.

Hours earlier Gurr had wrongly accused Mr Davies of stealing £700 cash from him and threatened to stab him “for fun” while waving a knife around.

Davies left the home of his girlfriend Clare Flame and Gurr followed along Brown Road and into East Milton Road.

Gurr, then 17, was joined by Oluleye in Milton Road where the attack happened.

The prosecution alleged Oluleye had been dropped off in a car by Loring, who later drove away the two teenagers.

During the trial Mr Davies said he may have left Ms Flame’s home with a knife but he denied using it while fighting with Gurr.

A knife with his DNA on the handle was found at the scene. It was not the weapon used to stab him.

Gurr telephoned Ms Flame three days after the attack and offered to pay him £1,000 to drop the charges.

Only Loring gave evidence during the trial.

Gurr’s lawyer Charles Langley described the attack as “horrendous” but submitted the teenager had only intended to give the victim a beating.

Prosecutor Rowan Jenkins said Gurr had admitted possessing drugs with intent to supply after a substantial amount of crack cocaine and heroin were found at an address in Bognor Regis, West Sussex, where he was arrested.

Gurr and Oluleye were remanded in custody.

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