TAYLOR Williams trial appeared in court today but has been adjourned until next month.

Taylor, 18, from Bromley, was “senselessly” stabbed to death after an attempted robbery by a rival drug gang operating in Basingstoke, Winchester Crown Court heard.

The teenager died in Shooters Way on Saturday, August 31, 2019 after a stab wound to his chest fatally cut his heart, causing him to lose a litre of blood and suffer a cardiac arrest.

At the opening of the murder trial into the London teenager's death, defendents Terence Maccabee, 19, of Southwark, and Olamide Soyege, 28, Dagenham, denied murder, knife possession and robbery charges.

Paige Taylor, 23, from Basingstoke, also denied robbery.

A spokesperson from Winchester Crown Court said: "This case was heard today in order to discuss housekeeping matters, it is adjourned until 20th July 2020 for further mention, hopefully trial date will be fixed then."