A boy accused of murdering an 80-year-old man as he walked his dog in a park confessed to the attack in a message to a friend and said he was going “on the run” minutes before he was arrested hiding in a bush, a court has heard.
The court was told the boy’s mother pleaded with her son to come home at around 8pm the day after the attack after he messaged her to say he would not be returning because police were looking for him and he would “explain it” later.
The court heard in one of the messages, the boy was asked by someone if he had “leathered” Mr Kohli, to which he replied: “I watched him hit a girl and pull a knife out.
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.
A 15-year-old boy is on trial charged with one count of murder and an alternative charge of manslaughter, while a 13-year-old girl is charged with Mr Kohli’s manslaughter.
