The teenagers accused of the murder of Bermudian student Lyrico Steede met in a car after he was stabbed in a park, a court heard yesterday.

Nottingham Crown Court heard that as Mr Steede was dying of his wounds in hospital, the group alleged to be responsible discussed the removal of information from an iPad that had been lent to one of the accused, a 16-year-old girl.

John Butterfield QC, defence counsel for the accused girl, suggested to a teenage girl witness that one of the men said he planned to “lie low”.

The girl said she was in a car with the accused girl and Kesharn Campbell, also accused of Mr Steede’s murder, and two other people four days after Mr Steede was stabbed on February 13,

Mr Steede, 17, who lived with family members in Nottingham, was attacked in a park in Stock Well in the Bullwell area of Nottingham and died in hospital five days later.

Mr Butterfield said the other occupants of the car, parked near a hotel in the city, included Mr Campbell, 19.

The girl told the court the other man, her boyfriend, was the driver of the car.

Mr Butterfield suggested the witness had contacted the accused girl and told her that Mr Campbell “wanted to speak to her urgently’.

She said: “It could have been.”

Mr Butterfield said that Mr Campbell had said that the iPad “needed to be wiped”.

The witness said: “I was not listening to their conversation. The radio was on and me and my boyfriend were speaking.”

Mr Butterfield said the car was moved to outside a friend’s house to access a wi-fi hotspot so the iPad could be used.

He suggested that Mr Campbell was “performing operations on it”.

The witness said: “Not to my knowledge.”

Mr Butterfield also suggested that Mr Campbell was “talking about going away”.

The witness said: “Not to me.”

Mr Butterfield said: “He was lying low.”

The witness said: “I don’t know where he would normally be.”

The 16-year-old girl and two boys aged 17, who cannot be named for legal reasons, have pleaded not guilty to the murder.

They are charged along with Mr Campbell and Remmell Campbell-Miller, 18, who also denied the charge.

The trial continues.

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