Three deny killing film student on Primrose Hill

Three men have denied killing a film student who was stabbed to death on Primrose Hill.

Finbar Sullivan, 21, was fatally wounded during an alleged altercation at the north London beauty spot on the evening of 7 April.

Ernest Boateng, 25, Alexis Bidace, 25, and Oliuwadamilola Ogunyankinnu, 27, all denied the murder and manslaughter of Sullivan, as well as violent disorder, when they appeared at the Old Bailey via video link from Belmarsh and Isis prisons.

The men, all from Enfield, were remanded in custody and will next appear for a case management hearing on 25 September, ahead of a trial due to begin on 5 April next year.

The court previously heard that emergency services were called to reports of a fight involving a group of young men.

Sullivan, who was studying at the London Screen Academy, entered the park at 18:25 GMT and joined friends before the fighting began.

Prosecutors said Boateng allegedly kicked Sullivan, taking his legs from under him and causing him to fall to the ground, before he was fatally stabbed in the thigh by one of the men.

Bidace and Ogunyankinnu are also alleged to have beaten Sullivan.

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