Kiyan stabbed 'trying to stop play fight'
A teenager accused of murdering promising young footballer Kiyan Prince went on trial at the Old Bailey today for a second time.
A jury could not agree a verdict when the 16-year-old appeared earlier this year and a retrial was arranged.
The youth has admitted stabbing Kiyan on May 18 but denies it was murder.
Kiyan's parents, boxer Mark Prince and Tracey Cumberbatch, sat at the side of the court as the case was opened by prosecutor Nicholas Hilliard.
He said that a play-fight outside Kiyan's school gates ended in his death.
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Kiyan, 15, who played for Queens Park Rangers' youth team, intervened in a fracas which turned fatal when the 16-year-old produced a knife, the jury were told.
He was stabbed in the heart.
Kiyan was in Year 10 at the London Academy, Edgware, and was described by a teacher as a "gorgeous boy, very popular and well liked by all who knew him".
The defendant and another boy were play-fighting when Kiyan told them to "stop playing around", the prosecution alleged.
The defendant went up to him and said: "What's going on?"
He then pushed Kiyan, who pushed him back, according to the other boy.
As the defendant stepped back, the boy said his hand went to his pocket.
Kiyan asked "What is that?" and the defendant told him he would hit him or do something if he pushed him again, according to the other boy.
When Kiyan did push the defendant, the other boy saw that the 16-year-old had a knife.
