Brett Blake, last few moments alive were captured on CCTV as he left a Sheffield nightclub

Brett Blake, last few moments alive were captured on CCTV as he left a Sheffield nightclub after being stabbed as part of an internal gang war with former friends, a court heard.Brett Blake, aged 23, bled to death after he was stabbed in his neck and stomach in two separate attacks inside Uniq in June.Cameras at the club and on a police van parked outside caught him walking out of the club and along Carver Street until he disappeared out of sight and made his way to hospital, where he later died.
Two former friends, Danny Hockenhull, 24 and Curtis Goring, 27, are accused of killing him in a planned attack carried out as a result of in-fighting among members of the same S3 postcode gang.They both deny murder.At the start of their trial at Sheffield Crown Court yesterday Gary Burrell QC, prosecuting, showed CCTV footage from inside the club, which he claimed captured the exact moments Hockenhull and Goring knifed their victim.He said Hockenhull lunged at him first on the crowded dancefloor - severing the jugular vein in his neck - and Goring lay in wait behind a speaker and struck as Mr Blake walked past, also puncturing a major vein.Mr Burrell QC said at the time of the murder all three men were members of the S3 gang, which operates in the Burngreave and Pitsmoor areas of the city.He claimed they started feuding six months earlier after a new gang member, Barrington "Wasman" Wallis, slashed Mr Blake across his face, severing his saliva glands.The gang split into two separate factions, with some supporting Blake and others taking sides with Hockenhull and Goring, Mr Burrell told the court.
On the night of the murder, according to the prosecution, Hockenhull telephoned a female friend warning her not to go out, telling her there was going to be "a blood bath".Mr Burrell QC said: "All three men - Blake, Hockenhull and Goring - knew one another very well. They effectively grew up with one another."They were part of a gang associated with the so-called S3 postcode area, the Burngreave and Pitsmoor areas. That is why they were known to each other, and at one stage they had all been friends."A serious disagreement developed leading to two different factions emerging - those who associated with Hockenhull and Goring, and those who associated themselves with the deceased. This was not just a falling out between friends. Sides had been taken."The court heard that in the months leading up to the murder there had been a number of violent incidents involving the three former friends.In one, Goring pulled a knife on Mr Blake when the murder victim himself had gone out intent on revenge for being slashed by "Wasman" a few days earlier.