A mother told a jury on Thursday, November 5, 2020, how she rushed to be with her dying son after learning he had been stabbed at a house party late on a Saturday night.
Mum, Tracey Anseh said on arrival at the house in Milton Keynes, police were already on the scene and wouldn’t let her in and she had to wait outside as her teenage son, Dom was carried out by an ambulance crew.
Mrs Anseh told Luton crown court today: “I shouted to him so he knew I was there and he looked up and said ‘I have been stabbed mum’.”
She told the jury she then was taken in a police car to Milton Keynes Hospital where she was eventually allowed in to a resuscitation room to be with her son.
She said police and medical staff and a security guard were in attendance and she told the jury: ”I was concentrating on Dom. I was just kissing my son and holding his hand.”
Mrs Anseh said when she asked her son who “who did this” he gave her the first names of three people followed by a “B3” sign with his hand to indicate the gang they belonged to.
Tracey Anseh was the first witness to go into the witness box in the trial of four people accused of the murders of 17-year-old Dom Anseh and his friend, 17-year-old Ben Gillham-Rice.
This week, when the trial began, the jury heard that a gang from West Bletchley in Milton Keynes called B3, are said to have been tipped off that rivals from a gang known as “M4” in the city were at the party on the night of Saturday October 19 last year.
Five young men including two juveniles, said to have been linked to B3, are alleged to have made their way by taxi to a house in Archford Croft on the Emerson Valley Estate where a young girl’s 17th birthday party was being held.
Friends Dom and Ben were in the house with other young people when members of the B3 gang, armed with knives and and their faces masked, burst into the house through a conservatory at the rear of the property and began attacking some of the males present. Dom and Ben were killed and two other young males were injured.
The jury have heard there was “bad blood” between the two gangs and the B3 gang members are are said to have been tipped off that rivals from “M4” were at the party. Ben, who had been in the lounge when the gang burst in, was stabbed six times before he could get out of the room.
One stab wound went through his chest and penetrated his heart and he died almost immediately. Dom, who, said the prosecutor, was a “particular focus’ for the gang, was chased out onto the street along with another youth.
Miss Newell told the jury: “Having run from the house he circled back into the street pursued by two of the defendants where he slipped, thereby allowing the attackers to gain ground upon him.
“He was repeatedly sliced and stabbed as he lay on the ground. Despite the very best efforts of the young party goers in the immediate aftermath and then attending paramedics and hospital staff, the wounds inflicted proved fatal and within hours he too had lost his life.”
She said he had 47 injuries including wounds to his shoulders, left arm, left leg, chest, abdomen, over his back, including one that had incised his lung.
Charlie Chandler, 22, and Clayton Barker, 20 along with two teenagers aged 17 and 16 who can’t be named because of their ages, have all pleaded not guilty to murdering the teenagers.
Mr Chandler of Fitzwilliam Street, Bletchley, Mr Barker of Surrey Road, Bletchley together with the two juveniles also plead not guilty to two charges alleging they wounded with intent a 17-year-old youth and a 23-year-old man who were at the party that night.
At the start of the trial, the jury was told another man, 23-year-old Earl Bevans, had pleaded guilty to two charges of the murder of Ben and Dom and two charges of wounding with intent on the other two party guests.
Giving evidence today, Dom’s mum, Tracey Anseh said she knew her son was going to a party on the Saturday night.
She said she had gone to bed, but was awake when she received a call from a teenage friend of her son who sounded “frantic” on the phone.
“He said I needed to get there quickly because Dom had been stabbed. I said where and he said Emerson Valley.”
Mrs Anseh said with members of her family she drove to the estate and, after spotting a police car, was directed to the house where the party had been.
“I just wanted to get to the house, I wanted to get to Dom,” she said.
She told the jury an ambulance was already outside the house and the police were on the scene.
The mother told the court that as she tried to go through the front door, which she could see was blood stained, she was prevented from doing so by a police officer.
“I was screaming to get in,” she told the court. Mrs Anseh said she had also learned that Ben had been stabbed and she phoned his mother.
The mother said she was still standing outside the house when her son, with breathing equipment attached to him, was brought outside on a stretcher by an ambulance crew and put into the rear of an ambulance.
She said the ambulance took her son to Milton Keynes General Hospital and she was taken there in a police car with members of her family.
The mum told the court that, after a delay, she was allowed to go into the resuscitation room where her son had been taken.
At first she said her son had been “talking fine” and when his sister left the room, he had asked her to go and bring her back.
Mrs Anseh said when she asked her son who was responsible for his injuries, he said “Clayton” and the first names of the two juvenile defendants.
She went on “He did a B3 sign with his hand” and she said he did this by forming a circle with his thumb and first finger with the three other fingers pointing straight up.
“He said ‘Mum, they stabbed me 13 times and Ben is dead.’ We said we didn’t know what had happened to Ben, so I was trying to reassure him and he said ‘No, they killed Ben,” she said.
The mother said she passed on the names her son had given her to a police officer nearby and it was then that he was moved to another room for “an x-ray and a scan.” Mrs Anseh said she wasn’t allowed to go into the room where the x-ray was to take place.
“As they were going into the room I kissed him and said ‘Just stay calm.’ He said to a doctor as they were going into the room ‘Don’t let me die’.”
The mother said that was the first she knew how serious his injuries were. After the scan she said her son was being taken back to the resuscitation room when he learned that his friend Ben had died. “Dom just screamed,” she said.
Back in the resuscitation room she said her son became dizzy and was sick, bringing up blood and then became agitated.
A chest drain was then inserted, but he died a short while later.
