A pair of teenagers have admitted stabbing two boys when groups of youngsters came together in a clash arranged on Instagram.

Charlie Lee, 18, of Birchington, and a boy, 15, from Ramsgate, inflicted life-threatening wounds on their victims in a Folkestone car park.

The pair, alongside a boy and girl both aged 16, also from Ramsgate, went on trial for attempted murder at Canterbury Crown Court on Wednesday.

But shortly after the prosecution laid out its case, Lee and the 15-year-old admitted two counts of wounding with intent, a lesser charge.

The maximum sentence, reserved only for the most serious cases, is life imprisonment.

Subsequently, the 16-year-old boy pleaded guilty to two counts of unlawful wounding, with the girl admitting one count of the same charge. The pair have been banned from Folkestone town centre as part of their bail conditions.

Giving evidence on Wednesday, one teenage victim, who was not involved in the arranging of the meeting or the clash in McDonald's, said the feeling of being stabbed in the chest, stomach, back and arm was “indescribable”.

During a recorded interview played to jurors, when asked how he felt as knives were drawn, he said: "Scared for my life, honest.

"I can't really describe [being stabbed]. I just thought 'what the hell, why did you stab me?' I was scared," said the 18-year-old, who had not met his attackers before.

“I remember, I was stabbed in the stomach, I was rolling around trying not to get hit, and then I got hit in the back, and I got stabbed in the chest.

“I got spat on by the girl.”

The violence erupted in the former Saga multi-storey car park in Middleburg Square in the early evening of May 17, 2022.

A fight was arranged on Instagram, in a group named ‘Man Dem’, with both groups taunting each other.

Bad blood flowed between two sets of teenagers after a row broke out in McDonald’s, in West Terrace, a few days before.

It resulted in Lee’s group reportedly chasing one of the victims - now aged 16 - and his friends with a knife.

Once the fight-date was set for May 17, Lee and the 15-year-old armed themselves with knives and travelled with their co-defendants from Ramsgate to Folkestone bus station.

They then stabbed two boys a total of five times before fleeing.

One victim, now aged 18, was stabbed after falling over his bike and presenting as an "easy target", the prosecution explained.

He was rushed to hospital in a critical condition after suffering wounds to his stomach, arm, chest and back.

The other victim, now aged 16, was also stabbed in the chest.

“[It is] sadly a depressing case involving serious youth violence involving a double stabbing,” Patrick Dennis explained, opening the prosecution’s case on Wednesday.

A bus driver discovered the victims, who come from the Folkestone area, soaked in blood and alerted 999.

They were rushed to London’s King’s College Hospital after suffering life-changing injuries.

Meanwhile, police traced the 15- and 16-year-old boys to a nearby Co-op store, where one tried hiding a blade.

The other tried hiding in the storeroom.

Days later, Lee and the 16-year-old girl were arrested. Her phone contained a text allegedly “bragging about the stabbing”, the court heard.

After the 15-year-old boy was remanded in custody, he posted a derisive remark on Instagram, reading: “xxxx Folkestone manz, xxxx all the opposition, xxxx the police, I’m going to be free soon.”

Lee, of Devons Gardens, and the 15-year-old pleaded guilty before trial to possession of a bladed article in a public place.

Following the four defendants' guilty pleas on Thursday, Judge Simon James remanded Lee and the 15-year-old in custody, pending probation reports before sentencing.

“Each of you have made admissions to very serious offences and I’m going to have to decide what the appropriate sentence will be for each of you,” he said.