A teenage girl has told a murder trial how she froze as she saw a gang of masked and hooded youths smash up a car and then attack 17-year-old Kyle Yule.

A friend of the stabbing victim, said she was standing with three others when the group of about six ran down a street in Gillingham.

She said one slashed a tyre the on car Kyle was sitting in and others smashed windows.

Kyle tried to run to the nearby front door of his friend Lewis Dilallo’s home but was set upon in the small garden.

The girl, who cannot be identified, told police at the scene she did not know any members of the group, but she later identified three of them.

She said she had not wanted to be branded a "snitch" and feared reprisals.

But she later named Vee – Victor Maibvisira – and two other teenagers as being part of the group. One was not charged.

The witness was giving evidence at the trial of 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.

Another 17-year-old has denied affray, using unlawful violence, on that date.

Kyle suffered a fatal wound under his right armpit in East Street on Friday, October 6 last year.

The girl gave a recorded interview to police three days after Kyle was killed.

She was with Thomas Bates, 19, and Jason Beer, 20, when they saw Scott Bodkin, who had been sitting in the Renault Clio with Kyle.

Mr Bodkin, 18, got out of the car to talk to them. He and Mr Bates, she said, were going to “sort out their differences”, but decided to “leave it”.

“We saw a bunch of boys run up at this car,” she said.

“I froze because I was scared. I didn’t know what to do. They were smashing the car, smashing windows and burst a tyre.

“Kyle jumped out of the car and ran over to Lewis’. He banged on the door. They were hitting him. I saw one had something in his hand.

“Kyle was saying: ‘I don’t want it. Just stop. Help me, help me.’

"They stabbed him and beat him and then ran off. I think he stabbed him. I am not one hundred percent sure.”

"I froze because I was scared...I didn’t know what to do. They were smashing the car, smashing windows and burst a tyre" - teenage witness

The girl said the door opened and Kyle fell in. “He had blood all over him,” she added.

“He was crying, saying ‘Help me’. He was in such a bad way.”

She said only saw one boy with what she thought was a weapon. She saw others punching and kicking Kyle.

The teenager said she did not hear Kyle call out any names during the attack.

“I just heard him telling them to stop,” she continued.

“I couldn’t say what Vee did. Kyle was saying ‘Help me. Stop. I don’t want it. I got the point’.”

She said she saw one teenager pull out something as he was running up.

Giving evidence to the jury she agreed she said she saw Vee stab Kyle, but admitted she did not see anyone stab him.

“I got confused,” she said.

“I saw Vee doing a stabbing motion. Kyle was on the floor. He was against the window. He was standing up at that stage.”

She picked Maibvisira and two other youths out at an identification procedure on October 11 last year.

Asked then what part Vee played, she replied: “He stabbed Kyle.”

She said in evidence Vee always asked where Kyle was and if anyone knew anything to let him know.

Jonathan Higgs, QC for the 16-year-old, told her: “These people were there and it is obvious something terrible happened.

"There is no doubt Kyle got stabbed to death. But they didn’t actually have their faces covered.”

The teenager insisted they were all masked. She agreed she froze because it was shocking.

The trial continues.