“(The boy and girl) used racist taunts against Mr Kohli, (the boy) used violence against Mr Kohli, (the girl) encouraged (the boy) to use violence against Mr Kohli.
Mr Sandhu told the court that the boy and girl had spent that afternoon together at Braunstone Park in Leicester before going to the boy’s home where he changed his clothes and wore black sliders, which the barrister said were used in the attack.
Mr Sandhu told the court that Mr Kohli was “on his knees” when the boy slapped him round the face with the slider shoe, an incident the girl filmed as she laughed.
The court heard that the boy then walked up to Mr Kohli, followed by the girl, but the other three children did not approach the pensioner and two of them left the park.
The girl first spotted Mr Kohli, the court heard, and told the group that he had tried to hit one of the boy defendant’s friends with a stick.
