A trail of blood led from the body of murder-victim Kellon Hill towards a broken cane and down to Elbow Beach, a Supreme Court jury heard.

PC Kenton Trott said that when he got to Elbow Beach, Mr. Hill, an 18-year-old Bermuda Institute graduate, was lying in an unresponsive state with red stains on his shirt.

Giving evidence in the trial of five teenagers accused of murder, PC Trott told the jury he arrived on the scene a few minutes after the 911 call was placed.

"As I began to walk down and I began to scope the scene, I saw a young man lying on the side of the road about halfway down from where South Road ends and Tribe Road Number Four begins.

"He was laying and it was a young female holding him almost across her lap. He appeared to be unresponsive and there was a big red stain of what appeared to be blood on his chest area."

Kellan Jeaurreau Lewis, 17, Kevin Andre Warner, 19, Gary Rupert Hollis, 16, Devon Vonzel Hairston, 18, and Zharrin Frankie Simmons, 17 pleaded not guilty to murder at the start of the trial.

Lewis alone is accused of unlawfully possessing a bladed article in a public place, with the others facing individual charges of possessing offensive weapons. Warner is said to have had a wooden cane, Hollis and Hairston allegedly had crash helmets, and Simmons a screwdriver.

They deny all the charges.

Mr. Hill was allegedly stabbed to death as he left a late-night party at Elbow Beach last August.

Trott said he was unable to say where the blood came from and added one of the victim's shoes was found across the street.

He continued: "Also across on the opposite side of the road there was a broken cane. The top piece of the cane was broken off from the rest of cane.

"There were droplets of what appeared to be blood leading from the body to the cane.

"It continued down towards Elbow Beach. It was not straight, it was almost zig-zagging. There were larger bits and smaller bits of what appeared to be blood.

"It was not like a pool but a large area of blood on the ground near his body and then droplets by the cane and then leading down towards the beach."

Asked if the area was dark, PC Trott said: "There were street lights and the moon was shining. Visibility was good for it being nighttime. It wasn't dark."

Jean Diondea Symons continued the evidence and again told the court Lewis snatched the chain from his cousin Kellon's neck.

He added Mr. Hill chased Lewis to get his chain.

"I don't know who he was speaking to but he was saying 'Give me back my chain'. I saw him running off the hill at the time to get his chain back. I could see him and that's when I went running off the hill too."

Lewis' lawyer, John Perry QC, suggested his client grabbed Mr. Hill's shirt causing the chain to fall but did not snatch it.

Mr. Symons disagreed and said: "If he grabbed the shirt in the front then the chain would have never snapped. The chain was hanging down his chest."

The trial continues.