Mr. Kohli was found lying in agony in Franklin Park, Leicester, just yards from his home, where he had been subjected to racial abuse and hit around the face with a plastic sandal while cowering on his knees before being punched and kicked.
He was taken to the hospital, where he passed away the following day, and a post-mortem examination determined that he had suffered a neck injury “causing trauma to the spinal cord,” in addition to broken ribs.
Prosecutor Harpreet Sandhu KC told jurors the boy had used ‘gratuitous’ and ‘intense’ violence before leaving his victim for dead.
He said he had no reason to hit the ‘defenceless’ elderly man who, because he was on the ground, was in a vulnerable position but his ‘instinct’ was to use violence.
