Two brothers have gone on trial accused of murdering a teenager in New Cross who was hit by a van and crushed against railings before being shot and stabbed.

Dwight Callender, previously of Mercator Road, Lewisham, and his brother Derrell, formerly of Leybridge Court, Eltham, both deny murder after 17-year-old Johnson Ndjoli was killed in 2009.

Johnson was a student at Crossways College, near Brockley station, at the time he was fatally injured in Sandford Road.

After being struck by the van, crushed against railings, then shot in the buttocks and stabbed, severely injured Johnson was rushed to hospital where he remained in a coma for seven and a half months.

He never regained consciousness before he died.

The Old Bailey jury yesterday (November 26) heard taped evidence from Mohammed Turray who witnessed the events leading up to the fatal incident.

He explained he was more friends with Derrell, now 26, rather than his older brother, now 29.

MORE TOP STORIES Mr Turray said: “Derrell, how do I say, idolises his brother, and I only really heard about him through Derrell and seen him once or twice.”

The jury heard there was a series of incidents earlier in the day of the alleged murder, some involving Derrell.

Mr Turray and his friend Johnson were with some other people when they were approached by another group dressed all in black.

He said: “They had hoodies on, tied on. So, it’s quite hard for them to see and it’s quite hard for me to see them.

“When I was running I heard somebody say ‘he’s got a shotty (shotgun)’.”

Someone fired the gun into the air as the former group fled.

He continued: “Me and Johnson only made it to Sanford Street.

“I know my best chance was keep running and don’t stop.

“I’m panicking. I’m hearing a gunshot. You don’t think.

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“As I turned to Sanford Street, Johnson meets me there, and he’s like ‘jump on the back [of a bike], let me back you’.

“[I said] just run because it’s going to slow us down.”

Johnson rode - on the wrong side of the road - while Mr Turray tried to keep up with him on foot.

He recalled: “I said ‘there’s a van coming’, but as I’m saying it, the van already hit Johsnon.

“He swerved, he tried to swerve out the way.

“That’s what confusing for me because if the van would have stopped, I would have said it was accident, because they both swerved the same way.”

Mr Turray said he was then hit by a different vehicle, an Argos lorry, causing him to lose consciousness.

He explained he no longer associates with some of his former friends after what happened describing it as “six years of hell”, adding: “I went my own way because I couldn’t forgive them for running away and Johnson dying.”

The trial continues.