A 16-year-old boy who denies attempting to murder another 16-year-old youth in Holbeach said he had no memory of the attack.
The teenager told a jury at Lincoln Crown Court that he accepted wounding the other youth but had no reason to cause him harm.
It is alleged the boy left his victim for dead after carrying out a violent attack on a piece of land adjacent to the William Stukeley primary school.
Jurors heard the victim was discovered with wounds to his throat and chest after police were called to the scene during the early hours of July 28.
Prosecutors allege the boy was wounded by other the youth after he passed out from drinking vodka which was bought by an adult from a local shop.
Jurors heard the victim was taken to the Queens Medical Centre in Nottingham and placed in an induced coma after he was located lying face down next to a hedge.
Giving evidence, the defendant said he remembered drinking vodka with the other youth and a teenage girl on a red bench as it got dark.
The youth, who can not be named because of his age, said the other two teenagers became emotional and he laid the other boy down on the ground because he was “too drunk.”
Jurors heard the defendant then offered to walk the teenage girl home.
Defence barrister Karen Walton asked the boy what was his last clear memory of that evening?
He replied: “From when I put him down on the ground and sat on the bench it all goes a bit fuzzy.”
Asked what his next clear memory was, the boy replied: “Being arrested and that is a bit blurry.”
It is alleged the defendant in fact made a FaceTime video call to another teenage girl from the bench area in which he could be seen holding an unbroken beer bottle.
He also made a threat to slit the other boy’s throat and told the girl “his future is in your hands,” it is claimed.
A short time later at 1.22am it is alleged the girl received a message which read “it’s on you.”
Jurors heard the defendant had a history of being referred to mental health services and carried out a previous assault on a friend which he said he could not remember.
Under cross-examination from prosecutor Stuart Lody, the boy denied a suggestion that his explanation of blackouts was a convenient reason to avoid taking responsibility for what he had done on this occasion.
The boy said he “felt frightened” after learning from the police about the assault and told jurors he now accepted wounding the other youth.
“Everything points to me being there,” he explained.
But the youth denied acting out of jealousy and said he had no reason to harm the other boy.
The 16-year-old defendant has admitted a charge of unlawful wounding but denies attempted murder and wounding the other boy with intent to cause him grievous bodily harm.
The trial continues.
