A young man from Lewisham was stabbed to death on a drill music video shoot after an online "war of words", a court has heard.

Bright Akinleye, 22, was set on by a group of men and stabbed three times with a large hunting knife at a flat in Euston.

During the onslaught in February last year, he grabbed the blade then left a trail of blood as he ran 150 yards to a hotel foyer where he collapsed.

Mr Akinleye bled out from a severed femoral artery in his leg and was pronounced dead on the hotel floor, the Old Bailey heard.

The court heard Mr Akinleye, a sports management graduate, had through his girlfriend become involved with a group of drill artists from Birmingham called 23 Drillaz, and later became the manager for one of the rappers, who was involved in the video shoot.

Prosecutor Simon Denison QC said alleged knifeman Tashawn Brewster, 31, had been recruited to help "punish" Mr Akinleye over a long-running dispute.

He is on trial for murder alongside Abdoulie Ceesay, 28, Silas Loko, 27, and Oliver Petts, 30.

Mr Denison said: "The prosecution case is that this attack wasn't a spontaneous outbreak of violence arising out of nothing. It was planned.

"Bright Akinleye had been in a long-running dispute with twin brothers from the Aylesbury estate in Southwark called Jospin and Elvis Mayamba.

"At the end of 2018 Bright had posted online a video that showed Jospin Mayamba being manhandled and disrespected by a group of people and it appears that there was a war of words between them that continued in the early part of 2019."

Mr Denison said that a few days before the murder, Mr Akinleye had taken to Instagram to contact the twins' older brother Chris Mayamba, who then was in jail in Nottingham.

The lawyer told jurors: "Instead of resolving anything they taunted each other and it ended with a threat from Chris Mayamba to Bright - 'when stuff go wrong for u or ur friends Mum just remember I said I don't do verbal'."

The court heard Ceesay and Loko, both from Southwark, were close to the twins.

On the evening of February 18 last year, Ceesay and Petts, from Lewisham, had been at a studio in Deptford, where the video shoot began before moving to Euston, it was claimed.

While in Deptford, Ceesay allegedly called Jospin Mayamba, who did not pick up, then contacted Loko who did respond.

Mr Denison said: "The prosecution case is that in the course of that call they agreed that they would take this opportunity to punish Bright Akinleye and they recruited someone to do it."

Jurors heard that Ceesay called Brewster who travelled to Euston from his home in Kennington, south London.

Brewster's DNA was later found on the handle of the knife and more DNA evidence linked him to a pair of trainers that were stained with Mr Akinleye's blood, the court heard.

The four defendants have denied murder and the trial continues.