A jury in the trial of a 16-year-old boy accused of attempting to murder another youth of the same age in Holbeach will retire to consider their verdicts on Monday.
Jurors at Lincoln Crown Court have been warned to put aside their emotions while considering the evidence they have heard during the five day trial.
Prosecutors allege the 16-year-old victim was left for dead after the other youth carried 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.
It is alleged the boy was wounded by the other youth after he passed out from drinking vodka which was bought by an adult from a local shop.
But giving evidence the 16-year-old defendant said he had no memory of the attack.
The boy, who can not be named because of his age, said his last memory was placing the other boy on the ground near a red bench after sharing the vodka with him and a teenage girl.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
