The teenager prosecutors claim stabbed Alex Innes told a friend from behind bars that the police had found weapons in his home that he ‘couldn’t even find myself’.

Greg Muinami’s call from HMP Bullingdon was made on the evening of November 18, five days after 25-year-old Mr Innes was fatally stabbed in Walton Street, Jericho.

The 19-year-old told an unnamed friend that the police had ‘ransacked my crib’. The ‘jakes’, as he called them, ‘took everything’.

He said: "They found weapons I didn't even know were there." Those ‘weapons’ included one that he suggested he had when he was ‘working’.

"They found that. I couldn't even find that myself,” Muinami was said to have told his friend.

The transcript of the call was read to Oxford Crown Court by prosecutor Jonathan Higgs KC yesterday (June 1), as he closed the Crown’s case against Muinami and three co-defendants accused of Mr Innes’ murder.

Jurors were told that police spent two days searching the teenager’s home in Cranham Street, Jericho, starting a day after the alleged stabber was arrested on the A40 in Cutteslowe on November 15.

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They seized a number of knives, including one with a short, curved iridescent blade that was said to have been found in a bag down the side of a double bed in one of the three bedrooms in the terraced property.

A knife set, arranged in a smart, clasp-handled box, was also taken away by the specialist search officers.

All but two of the knives in the box were in their allocated slots. One of the missing knives was recovered by the police officers, but they were unable to find the final blade.

Quizzed by Mr Higgs on Thursday afternoon, the officer in the case DS Stephanie Barras-Thompson told jurors that the empty slot had been measured. The vacant space suggested the blade was 13cm long and 2.2cm at its widest point.

David Hislop KC, for Muinami, established that none of the knives seized from the property contained traces of Mr Innes’ blood or DNA.

Greg Muinami, 19, of Cranham Street, Michael Oluyitan, 19, of Waynflete Road, Bradley Morton, 19, of Cumberlege Close, and Keyarno Johnson-Allen, 19, of Furlong Close, all deny murder, manslaughter and possession of a bladed article.

In prepared statements read to detectives when they were interviewed in the aftermath of the stabbing, and which were read out again to jurors yesterday, both Morton and Johnson-Allen strongly denied involvement in Mr Innes’ death.

Morton accepted shouting ‘are you f***ing dumb’ at Mr Innes, but said that he had gone towards the older man after he ‘charged’ at the teenager’s friend with a glass in his hand.

"None of my actions were to defend Gino [Muinami] or anyone directly connected to the argument. I just wanted Alex to go,” he said.

Johnson-Allen said he had ‘no reason’ to harm Alex, who he knew. He said he had gone to Mr Innes’ aid and followed the directions of the 999 operator.

Muinami and Oluyitan answered no comment to all questions put to them in their police interviews. Aside from their prepared statements, their two co-defendants also declined to answer questions. 

The trial will resume on Monday morning.