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The friends asked the boy accused of murder “What did you do?”

The friends asked the boy accused of murder “What did you do?”

Dan Martin

BBC News, Leicester

Provided a post-mortem examination found that Bhim Kohli died due to a throat injurygiven

The yard heard Bhim Kohli, 80 years old, regularly walking the rocky dog ​​in the park where he was attacked

The friends of a boy accused of killing an 80-year-old man asked him “What did you do?” Following the fatal attack, a court heard.

Bhim Kohli died the day after being attacked while walking his dog in Franklin Park, at his house in Braunstone Town, Leiceestershire, on September 1 last year.

A 15 -year -old boy and a 13 -year -old girl who cannot be named because of their age, are sued at Leicester Crown Court, accused of killing him.

A 13 -year -old boy – who was with the defendants before the attack – said he did not see the fatal attack, but said that the accused boy “came out of the park with his hands on his head saying” O, he was on the floor. “

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Mr. Kohli died the day after being attacked

The court was previously said The male defendant, who denies crime and murder, racially abused Mr. Kohli before kicking him and hit him during an “intense attack”.

The boy, who wore a Balaclava, beat Mr. Kohli around the face with his sliding shoe while on his knees, heard the court.

Prosecutors added her to the girl, accused of murder, encouraged violence and filmed the attack on her phone as she laughed.

On Thursday, the jurors were showing a registration of a police interview with the 13 -year -old, conducted on September 4 last year.

The boy told the police that the female defendant saw Mr. Kohli in the park and said he had previously hit one of her friends with a stick.

The 13 -year -old – who gave his evidence behind a screen – said that the two defendants were then brought to Mr. Kohli – at which point and two other girls in the group fled.

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The court heard that Mr. Kohli’s children found him lying on the ground after the attack

The witness said that while he did not see the attack on Mr. Kohli, when he asked what he thought he would do the man, he said: “We know how (the man’s defendant) is to go to someone. Either he would start on him, or something.

“I didn’t think he would hit him. I thought he would talk to him about why he hit one of his friends.

“(The masculine accused) came out of the park with his hands on his head, saying” o, he was on the floor. “

He said that the others asked the male defendant: “What did you do? What did you do?”

The 13 -year -old boy told the police that he only saw Mr. Kohli once before and never spoke.

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Tributs were left to Mr. Kohli near Franklin Park

The jurors heard that Mr. Kohli was discovered by two of his children “on earth and with obvious pain.”

Mr. Kohli, heard the court, told his daughter that he was hit in front, hit with his foot and abused racially.

His cause of death was administered as a neck injury causing injury to the spinal cord, and the court said he has a number of other wounds, including fractured ribs.

The process continues.