A man who carried out a frenzied knife attack infront of adults and children in a Gravesend street has been found guilty of attempted murder.
Brandon Gurr, 18, was convicted by a jury at Maidstone Crown Court earlier today (August 19) of one count of attempted murder and one count of perverting the course of justice.
Co-defendant Mojolaoluwa Oluleye, also 18, was cleared of attempted murder and convicted of wounding with intent.
Peter Loring, 20, from Strood, was cleared of assisting an offender.
The jury of eight women and four men returned unanimous verdicts after they retired yesterday at around midday.
Both men are due to be sentenced on October 2 at the same court.
GUILTY: Brandon Gurr, 18.
Earlier in the trial judge Charles Macdonald QC instructed that Mr Loring, who was accused of driving Gurr and Mojolaoluwa away from the scene of the stabbing, be formally acquitted of attempted murder.
The three defendants were charged under the legal term 'joint enterprise' after victim Neil Davies suffered stab wounds in Milton Road on February 10.
Before the start of the trial Gurr, of no fixed address, pleaded guilty to wounding with intent but denied attempted murder.
He also denied one count of perverting the course of justice.
Three days after the stabbing Gurr is said to have phoned Mr Davies’s girlfriend, Clare Flame, and offered to pay Mr Davies £1,000 if he dropped the charges.
Oluleye, of Meadow Road, Gravesend, who is also known by his nickname Hustle, denied both counts of attempted murder and wounding with intent.
Gurr had intended to get revenge because he wrongly believed Mr Davies had stolen £700 from him.
The scene of the stabbing on Milton Road.
They both fled the scene leaving Mr Davies lying on the ground bleeding from his injuries.
The jury heard one of the witnesses was in Milton Road with her young son and a 17-month-old baby in a pram when the attack took place.
Rowan Jenkins for the prosecution said Mr Davies stumbled on to this push chair with a "terrified child and parent".
He said Gurr and Oluleye were so focused on the attack that they "fail to see or fail to care at all about what is going on".
Defending Gurr, Charles Langley, claimed the planning of the attack was more consistent with "beating someone up" than attempted murder.
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