Published Wednesday, 13 January 2010
The 15-year-old was allegedly stabbed to death and two of his friends also attacked on the Upper Somerton Road, at the back gates of St Patrick's College.
On Wednesday, the Belfast Crown Court jury of eight men and four women were first driven in a minibus, under an armed police escort, to Ross House in the loyalist Mount Vernon flats complex on the Shore Road.
It was from the flats that the prosecution claim that 26-year-old Nigel James Brown and Gary Ryan Taylor, 23 - who both lived in the complex at the time - set out before the murder on August 10th, 2005.
The jury, carrying a ground-floor plan of the flats, wondered around in front of lawyers and trial judge Mr Justice McLaughlin, checking the location of the lift and stairwell, in addition the position of CCTV cameras which allegedly captured Brown and Taylor leaving the complex.
From there the jury were driven in a circular route along Fortwilliam Park, turning onto the Lansdowne Rd and bringing them out on the Antrim Road, then down along the Antrim Rd, left into Alexandra Park Ave and then left again and back into Fortwilliam Park.
With judge, lawyers, security staff and press all in tow, the jury were then taken to the alleged scene of the stabbing.
Again with the aid of maps the jury were able to wonder around the scene picking out various locations before driving back to the Crown Court, where the trial was adjourned for the day.
The case continues.