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Three teenage boys ‘ruthlessly’ murdered a father of one on his doorstep with a two-foot-long ‘Rambo knife’, before ‘spotting’ the man’s partner as their girlfriends helped them escape, a court heard.
Your Daine Carty, Cohan Daley and Ismaila Kamarra-Jarra, all 18, are said to have murdered Frantisek Olah at his home in Basingstoke, Hampshire, just yards away from his distraught partner and their young child.
The trio were then overheard “grinning” and joking after stabbing the 30-year-old “20 times” with a knife.
Their 18-year-old girlfriends – Kelsea Byrne, Kaysha Saunders and Abbie Mills – then allegedly helped them flee the crime scene and hide evidence.
The six teens are now on trial in Winchester Crown court after the horrific murder. The three boys are charged with murder and the girls are accused of aiding a perpetrator. All deny the allegations.
Frantisek Olah was murdered on his doorstep in May of this year in front of his partner and child. Three 18-year-old boys are on trial at Winchester Crown Court, charged with his murder
Olah was pronounced dead at the scene on May 22 this year after losing an “abundant” amount of blood from the stab wounds, which were up to 4.7 inches deep.
Prosecutor Sarah Jones KC said one of the knives used was a 26-inch Rambo knife, with a 17-inch partially serrated blade.
The victim was known to one of the suspects, Carty, through cannabis deals, the court heard.
After the murder, one of the suspects suggested to a friend that Mr. Olah had been killed after a drug dispute and because “he was being mean to them,” the jury heard.
Ms Jones said: ‘On May 22 this year, Frantisek Olah was relaxing at home with his partner, Chelsea Lee, and their young child – he was about to turn 31 years old.
“This is a case of how these young men came to his door and knocked him down mercilessly.
Kelsea Byrne, 18, (pictured) is said to have helped them flee the crime scene and hide evidence. Several camera images shown in court appear to show Byrne and Kaysha Saunders’ cars driving to and from different locations with the attackers
“About eleven o’clock in the evening three young men showed up at his door and in an astonishingly short time he was bleeding to death from numerous stab wounds just inside his own front door.”
By the time emergency services arrived to help Olah, “it was too late,” the prosecutor said. He was pronounced dead just after midnight.
After the horrific attack, the three teenage boys were helped by their girlfriends to flee the area, the court heard.
Ms Jones said: ‘The defendants’ subsequent conduct seems to indicate that they enjoyed and enjoyed the power of ruthlessness that seemed to possess them.
“Their girlfriends, or friends, tried to help them get out of the area and hide incriminating evidence.”
The court heard that the “speed and ferocity of the attack” meant that the three girls “knew what was going to happen and the part they were going to play.”
The prosecutor then spoke on behalf of Mr Olah’s partner, Ms Lee.
She said, “Mr. Olah can’t tell us what happened, of course, but his partner will do her best.
“Chelsea was watching something on TV before there was a bang on the door – not just a knock.
“He went to the door, but then she heard an even louder bang and heard Mr. Olah scream, as if he was in pain.
Abbie Mills, 18, (pictured) is also accused of aiding an assailant. The court heard a cab driver that night Mills, in response to the cordoned off crime scene, say, “I’m really scared now” before being told to “shut up” because they were in a cab.
“She came down the hall and saw him lying on the floor with one of the men already inside and two right behind it.”
Carty was the first to break in, Mrs. Lee said, carrying a “Rambo knife.”
Mrs Jones said ‘She heard’ [Carty] say something about giving the keys – but in fact the car was not taken.
‘[Carty] he stabbed the upper part of his body and Mr. Kamarra-Jarra, he also stabbed and then the third.
“They were all stabbing, repeatedly and with speed — she thinks they stabbed him about 20 times before yelling at Mr. Carty who came over to her.”
Mrs. Lee retreated to their yard to get help from a neighbor, yelling, “There are people in my house with knives.”
The three teens were then “run off the road,” after using the back entrance and going through the couple’s yard.
The court heard that when she went back inside to get her young child, Mr. Olah was covered in so much of his own blood, “it was hard to approach.”
Kaysha Saunders, 18, (pictured) is also accused of aiding an assailant. The prosecutor said Byrne and Saunders were together ‘waiting to be called’ to help the men and ‘transport them around’
A neighbor who testified to police said an attacker “appeared to be laughing” as they fled the crime scene.
Mr Olah’s autopsy examination found that the stab wounds had caused “catastrophic damage,” with one of the wounds being 4.7 inches deep and touching his lung.
The report said the bleeding would have been “profuse” and that his death would be “inevitable” given the rapid blood loss.
After the attack, there was a series of phone calls between the men and the three young women, the jurors heard.
Police outside Olah’s home in Basingstoke after he was murdered on his doorstep in front of his partner and young child
Various CCTV footage shown in the courtroom appears to show Byrne and Saunders’ cars driving to and from different locations with the attackers.
Ms Jones said Byrne and Saunders were together, “waiting to be called” to help the men and “transporting them around.”
The lawyer added, “What could have been so important that all those early morning meetings and phone calls were necessary?”
The court heard a cab driver that night, in response to the cordoned off crime scene, say, “I’m really scared now” before being told to “keep quiet” because they were in a cab.
Police on the scene after father-of-one was killed with 2-meter-long ‘Rambo knife’
Ms Jones KC said: ‘The crown suggests this is Abbie Mills investigating her friend’s actions. What turns out then is that the men disperse.’
The court heard that Byrne drove Carty and Kamarra-Jarra to Oxford.
Ms Jones KC told the court that Kamarra-Jarra had a friend in Oxford who said of their exchange: “He said he went into hiding and killed someone because he raised the price of drugs and was mean to them.”
Kamarra-Jarra had told the friend they “had no intention of” killing Mr. Olah, but told how he stabbed the man in the back and “turned the knife.”
Ms Jones KC added: ‘They went to dinner together and during the meal Mr. Kamarra-Jarra and Mr. Carty joked and joked about what had happened.’
The court heard how the Oxford contact recalled in the taxi back from the meal, Mrs Lee called them up and accused them of murdering her baby’s father – to which they both laughed, ‘grinned and mocked her’.
Kamarra-Jarra and Carty were later arrested, as was Daley who was arrested in Southampton.
All three boys, all from Basingstoke, deny murder.
Byrne, Saunders and Mills, also from Basingstoke, deny helping an assailant.
The trial – which is expected to take eight weeks – continues.