Two teenagers have been sentenced for killing an 80-year-old dog-walker who was racially abused, punched, kicked, and slapped in the face with a shoe while on his knees in a brutal park attack.
A 15-year-old boy was ordered to serve seven years’ detention and a 13-year-old girl handed a three-year youth rehabilitation order by a High Court judge at Leicester Crown Court for the manslaughter of Bhim Kohli, who suffered a broken neck and fractured ribs just yards from his home.
The girl had filmed a series of video clips in which Mr Kohli was slapped with the shoe by the masked boy and another where the 80-year-old lay motionless on the ground, the court previously heard.
Mr Justice Turner said it had been a “cowardly and violent attack” on an elderly man who did “nothing to deserve” what happened to him.
A six-week trial heard that Mr Kohli called out for help while walking his dog Rocky when he was assaulted by the balaclava-clad boy while the girl laughed and filmed parts of the attack on her phone in Franklin Park, Braunstone Town, near Leicester on September 1 last year.
Both children denied their part in the grandfather’s death but were convicted of manslaughter by a jury at the same court in April, while the boy was cleared of Mr Kohli’s murder.
