A TEENAGER who was stabbed and whose brother was killed when a family feud turned to bloody violence has watched CCTV footage of the clash for the first time.

Lennon Pickering described the “nightmare” which unfolded outside his home in Normanby, near Middlesbrough, when 27-year-old Steven Willis died.

He admitted that he and Mr Willis had been drinking and taking cocaine at a funeral wake in the Teesside Bridge Social Club in hours before the fighting erupted.

Dominic Pickering, 23, of Grinkle Avenue, Mark Pickering, 32, of Greenham Close, Kieran Ibitson, 21, of Beresford Crescent, Jahmal Weaver, 22, of Rounton Green, and Jack Cross, 21, of Olney Walk, all Middlesbrough, deny murder and manslaughter as well as wounding Lennon Pickering with intent to cause him grievous bodily harm.

All but Ibitson deny wounding his father John Pickering with intent to cause him grievous bodily harm. He has admitted the charge.

The prosecution claims the five men turned up in Meadowcroft Road with the intent of, at least, causing serious harm to another person.

Lennon told the jury of eight women and four men that his cousin Mark Pickering was “kicking off with everyone” at the wake, and spoiling for a fight.

And he said he did not know who had stabbed him during the brawl – which had been set up by his father and Mark after the dispute in the club.

On the first day of the trial, father-of-four Mr Pickering, 47, said he wanted a “straightener” with his nephew, and expected a fair fist-fight and a shaking of hands afterwards.

He said “never in a million years” did he expect him to turn up with an armed “team” to tackle him.

The CCTV footage was seized by police after the killing, and it was taken from an expensive camera fitted to the house by Mr Pickering – to protect his property and his family, he told the court.

Lennon said he did not see the knife when Ibitson approached his father, but saw them going into a corner, and then the alleged attacker putting the weapon back into a man bag.

He told the court: “Everyone was crowded around each other so you couldn’t really see what was going on.

“Everyone was just running about.

“It’s just all a blur really. All just pulling each other about and fighting with each other.

“I wasn’t really that aware of what was going on. I didn’t know what to do.

“There’s only one way it can end if someone pulled a knife out.”

The five men arrived in a Ford Fiesta driven by Cross, and it is alleged that Dominic Pickering got out first, and yelled: “Wait ‘til you see what we’ve got for you here”.

Earlier in the trial, scaffolding supervisor Mr Pickering agreed he had a good relationship with his nephew, looked out for him all his life, and all the lads in the family looked up to him and knew of his reputation for fighting.

He said he had never come to blows with Mark Pickering before, and told the jury that he cannot remember uttering the words “come on then” or whether he was the first to speak.

The trial continues.