The man accused of stabbing a schoolboy to death told police he knew "100% it's not going to court because I didn't do it," a jury heard on Tuesday.
The Belfast Crown Court jury also heard that during the final interviews 23-year-old Gary Ryan Taylor had with police in October 2006, he told them they were "barking up the wrong tree" by investigating him for the murder of 15-year-old Thomas Devlin.
Taylor, from Mountcollyer Avenue in north Belfast, denies murdering the teenager on August 10 2005, and attempting to murder and inflict grievous bodily harm on his friend Jonathan McKee.
Alongside Taylor in the dock is 26-year-old Nigel James Brown from the Whitewell Road, also north Belfast, who denies the same charges but who has already pleaded guilty to a further count of attempting to cause GBH to Mr McKee.
Devlin, McKee and another friend were attacked just before midnight by two men walking a dog on as they walked along the Somerton Road.
The schoolboy died as a result of the stab wounds he sustained while Mr McKee was stabbed in the abdomen and hit on the head with a wooden baton.
It is the Crown case that Taylor had the knife and Brown had the bat.
On Tuesday, the jury heard the transcripts of the last three interviews Taylor had with police where he told cops he was "sick" of being questioned.
"You can keep asking me questions or you can keep listening to 'no comment'," he told police, and when asked directly if he knew anything about the murder, he said he knew "nothing".
The trial continues.
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