Five members of 'notorious' gang jumped over garden fence to ambush and murder two teenage boys in Milton Keynes, court hears

The jury heard how the five members of a notorious gang were wearing masks and carrying weapons before the attack in October last year.

They leapt over the garden fence a house in Archford Croft, Emerson Valley, where a teenage girl's birthday party was taking place.

The men blocked the front door so guests could not get out.

Then they murdered two Dom Ansah and Ben Gillham-Rice and stabbed two others in an “armed, co-ordinated group ambush”, the jury was told.

The three young men and two anonymous youths were part of the West Bletchley-based B3 gang who had discovered members of their rivals, the M4 gang from Westcroft, would be attending the party.

Dom Ansah and Ben Gillham-Rice, who were best friends, were stabbed to death in “ferocious” attacks at the scene by the attackers/

One of the defendants , 23-year-old Earl Bevans has pleaded guilty to killing the two boys.He has also admitted wounding with intent on Ryan Brown and Tom Honhold.

Clayton Barker, aged 20, Charlie Chandler, 22 , a 17-year-old boy and a 16-year-old boy, who are all from Milton Keynes, are all pleading not guilty.

The two younger defendants cannot be named for legal reasons.