Five teenagers have denied murdering another youth when rival gangs clashed in a Medway street.

Victor Maibvisira, 19, two 17-year-olds and two 16-year-olds entered the pleas when they appeared at Maidstone Crown Court today. They also all denied violent disorder.

Kyle Yule, who was 17, was fatally stabbed in East Street in Gillingham as he tried to flee to his home in nearby Hamilton Road on Friday, October 6 last year.

A previous hearing was told he was chased from a Renault Clio and stabbed under his right armpit as violence broke out between rival gangs from Chatham and Gillingham.

A tyre on the car in East Street was slashed when the trouble started in the early evening.

Maibvisira, of St John’s Road, Gillingham, and one of the 17-year-olds have admitted threatening “another” with a machete in Gillingham Road, Gillingham, six days earlier on October 1.

A 16-year-old denied affray, using unlawful violence, on that date.

Maibvisira and the four others, from Gillingham, the London Borough of Croydon, Sittingbourne and Stevenage, Hertfordshire, were all remanded in custody and will stand trial on April 9.

A jury will be selected on the first day of the trial, which is expected to last up to six weeks, and the prosecution case will be opened the following day.

Jurors will be taken on a “view” of the crime scene on April 11.