A teenager has been found guilty of manslaughter after Dontae Davis was fatally stabbed in Lawrence Hill last year. Kairon Sawyers has been tried at Bristol Crown Court after Davis, 18, died of a stab wound in October 2021.
Dontae was found injured in Hayes Close, Lawrence Hill, at around 6.20pm on October 14 and Avon and Somerset Police charged 19-year-old Sawyers of Ewell Road, Whitchurch, with murder. However, a Bristol Crown Court jury found Sawyers not guilty of murder, but guilty of manslaughter.
The court heard that the fatal stabbing occurred after a knife fight in an alley between youths from rival groups. Sawyers denied the murder charge and told the jury that he acted in self defence and that he was the victim of a stabbing.
