A witness in a murder trial has described seeing a teenager wielding a machete as his friend was attacked by a mob in a Medway street.

Jaysen Beer said he saw “Vee” – Victor Maibvisira – “doing a stabbing motion” with the weapon as Kyle Yule lay on the ground.

Mr Beer, 20, said earlier he saw hand motions “going down and up, down and up” as Kyle screamed for help.

The 17-year-old, he said, was attacked by six youths as he ran to his friend’s home in East Street in Gillingham on Friday, October 6 last year.

He suffered a wound under his right armpit and died soon afterwards.

A jury at Maidstone Crown court has heard that the violence was the culmination of rivalry between groups from Chatham and Gillingham.

Giving evidence screened from five teenagers on trial, Mr Beer said he was talking to some friends in East Street when he saw Kyle sitting in the driver’s seat of a Renault Clio, close to Lewis Dilallo’s house.

Scott Bodkin got out of the car and went to talk Mr Beer and his friends.

“I saw six boys with their hoods up running over to the car and start to attack it, smashing windows,” he said. “That’s when Kyle started to jump out of the front seat and run over to Lewis’ house.”

Mr Beer had drawn a sketch of the scene in which he said he named “Vee and his boys”.

One hooded youth smashed the passenger side window. Another boy wearing a tracksuit slashed the tyres.

“Kyle ran to Lewis’ house,” said Mr Beer. The group decided to chase after him. They started to jump on him. They started to attack him.

“He was on the doorstep when they jumped on him. I thought they were only beating him up but I heard this noise. It was like a scream.

“They were punching down because he was on the on the floor. At that moment I saw just fists. I couldn’t see anything over the wall.

“I probably moved a little bit because I was scared about what was going on. I could hear his voice. I heard a sound. It is hard to explain. It is like when someone is stabbed.

“He was in pain, really bad pain. He was screaming for help – screaming for his mum as well.

“They looked as if they were holding something. I could see a machete. I was close enough to see what they were doing. I saw the weapon.”

“He was in pain, really bad pain. He was screaming for help – screaming for his mum as well" - Jaysen Beer

Asked by prosecutor Steven Perian QC if he knew anybody’s name, he replied: “Yes, Vee. I could see him doing the stabbing motion with the machete. A Samurai sword as well, I saw.”

Maibvisira, 19, of St John’s Road, Gillingham, three 17-year-olds and a 16-year-old, from Gillingham, Croydon, Sittingbourne and Stevenage, Hertfordshire, all deny murder, an alternative of manslaughter and violent disorder.

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

One of the 17-year-olds has denied affray, using unlawful violence, on that date.

The trial continues.