A HEARTBROKEN daughter relived hearing her dad’s screams after he was “beaten to death” by a teenage boy as a girl, 12, filmed.
Bhim Kohli, 80, was allegedly murdered and racially abused as he walked his dog in a park, a jury had been told.
Terry HarrisBhim Kohli was allegedly kicked to death by a teen boy[/caption]
Terry HarrisHe was found injured in the park by his son[/caption]
Leicester Crown Court heard the pensioner was targeted in Franklin Park in Braunstone Town, near Leicester, on September 1 last year.
A balaclava clad boy struck him in the face with a shoe while a girl videoed the assault on her phone, jurors were told.
Mr Kohli died a day after being rushed to hospital with a spinal cord injury and broken ribs.
A 15-year-old boy, who can’t be named for legal reasons, is on trial charged with one count of murder and an alternative charge of manslaughter.
A 13-year-old girl, who also cannot be named, is charged with manslaughter.
Jurors were read a gut-wrenching statement from Mr Kohli’s daughter, Susan Kohli on trial day four.
She wrote: “Whilst by his side, I knelt down and said, ‘Dad, what has happened?’
“He screamed, ‘My neck. my neck, my neck, lift my neck’.
“This was not his normal tone. He was in agony, almost screaming.
“I have never heard him cry out in pain about anything like that before.”
In a second statement from the heartbroken daughter, she said: “While we were on Franklin Park my dad told me that they had called him a P***.”
A statement from Simranjeet Kohli, Mr Kohli’s grandson, who was in the park after the attack, said: “My granddad was yelling in pain as he was laying there.”
Statements were also given by police officers in a report after the alleged assault.
Jurors heard in the report a witness said she described “seeing the boy forcefully pushing the old man on to his back”.
The court hears how the witness described the old man as “ending up on the floor screaming”.
Pc Rachelle Pereira said in a statement: “Mr Kohli was repeatedly screaming out in pain, shouting out ‘My neck’.”
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”.
Meanwhile paramedic Michael Thrift said in his statement Mr Kohli appeared to be in a lot of pain.
He said: “He was screaming throughout dealing with him.”
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.
“What sticks in my mind is that the patient appeared to be upset greatly by being called P***,” Mr Thrift said.
The trial continues.
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