Boy and girl found guilty of killing 80-year-old dog walker in park attack

A 15-year-old boy and 13-year-old girl have been found guilty of killing an 80-year-old dog walker who was filmed being assaulted before his death. The six-week trial heard Bhim Kohli, 80, was injured and racially abused just yards from his home in Franklin Park, Braunstone Town, near Leicester on September 1 last year. Jurors at Leicester Crown Court deliberated for six hours and 46 minutes before unanimously convicting the boy and girl, who cannot be named because of their ages, of manslaughter.

The boy had also been charged with murder, but was found not guilty by the jury on that count. The youths, who sat in the dock for the first time since their trial began, appeared upset as the verdicts were returned by the foreman of the jury..