A man has denied stabbing a teenager in the back in Dunmow.
18-year-old Ryan Scott received a knife wound at Upper Mill Field following an altercation near Domino’s Pizza in Station Road.
Reece Pridmore, 21, of Harris Green, Dunmow, appeared at Chelmsford Crown Court today (Monday).
He pleaded not guilty to one count of wounding with intent and one count of having an article with a blade or point.
Mr Scott was injured at about 5pm on Friday, July 31.
A trial has been provisionally scheduled for May.
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