A statement from Pc Rachelle Pereira referred to the pain Mr Kohli must have been in, as she said: “Mr Kohli was repeatedly screaming out in pain, shouting out ‘My neck’.”.
A statement from Simranjeet Kohli, Mr Kohli’s grandson, who was in the park in the aftermath of the attack, said: “My granddad was yelling in pain as he was laying there.”.
According to Mr Thrift, Mr Kohli said that he was called a “P***” before he had been pushed and hit by the boy, but did not say who had called him that word.
Pc Pereira’s statement also referred to the witness and said she told the police officer she saw a young white boy wearing a black balaclava “shove the old man to the floor and sprint”.
Bhim Kohli was allegedly racially abused and slapped in the face with a shoe by a boy wearing a balaclava and was filmed being attacked on a girl’s phone, a trial at Leicester Crown Court heard.
