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PassingStranger · 05/06/2025 21:28

Who are the parents, name and shame. It's time parents were held to account when their children are going round doing this.
The country has got to change.

MrsBennetsPoorNerves · 05/06/2025 21:27

SingleMama0 · 05/06/2025 20:09

I think the sentence is ok tbh. Im local to this. It is terrible. I just hope the child is given lots of help and changes for the better in the time they serve. I think the girl should’ve also been charged too

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I'm interested to know what makes you think the sentence is about right.

JHound · 05/06/2025 21:27

I don’t care if they are minors.

Those sentences are pathetic.

Cyclebabble · 05/06/2025 21:26

He could have been my dad. A kindly old family orientated dad. Hideously racially abused and murdered. The boy I think if he is out in 3.5 years will never see an adult prison. My family is a bit more fearful tonight. The law does not seem to protect us.

JHound · 05/06/2025 21:26

BeliesBelief · 05/06/2025 18:09

And over in Dagenham, these two boys got 6 years and less than 3 years for burning an elderly, vulnerable man alive in his home after tormenting him for months.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3e5wqq523ko

“When Otitodilchukwu, of Romford, returned to his care home that evening,”

Of course he’s in a care home.

More irresponsible breeding and society picks up
the consequences

MrsBennetsPoorNerves · 05/06/2025 21:25

I understand that the perpetrators were children and that this would have been a mitigating factor, but notwithstanding their age, it is very hard to see how these sentences are in any way appropriate for a racially aggravated murder. I'm not really clear as to why they went for the lesser charge of manslaughter. The perpetrators were clearly old enough to understand what they were doing.

I really feel for the family. It must feel like there has been no justice at all.

RainbowZebraWarrior · 05/06/2025 21:23

SingleMama0 · 05/06/2025 20:09

I think the sentence is ok tbh. Im local to this. It is terrible. I just hope the child is given lots of help and changes for the better in the time they serve. I think the girl should’ve also been charged too

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Are you for real? 7 years is 'ok'

Jesus.

knittasgonna · 05/06/2025 21:22

Some people don't deserve to live, or if you're soft-hearted, don't deserve to live among the rest of us. The motivation for the crime is less important to me than its brutality and senselessness. There is no reason for it, so one reason isn't any worse than another, imo. I can't imagine someone capable of such evil will ever contribute anything of value to society. The world would be a better place without him in it.

Parsley1234 · 05/06/2025 21:19

@SingleMama0 from your obtuse remarks and being local to the crime what do you know that isn’t being reported ? One of your children friends with one of the murderers ? Clearly that 14 year old should be jailed for life and the other scum the same

Acommonreader · 05/06/2025 21:19

This is devastating to the local area. I have family in Leicester and this has really affected the community.
There will be huge anger at these sentences especially the girls lack of custodial punishment.I definitely do not condone reprisals but realistically she will need to move from the area. I hope the sentences are appealed/ reconsidered if possible. Poor poor family . I cannot imagine how they feel after everything they have already been through.

NightSweatsNinja · 05/06/2025 21:17

Life sentence. It was murder, plain and simple.

EmeraldRoulette · 05/06/2025 21:16

@SingleMama0 he's well above the age of criminal responsibility

So I would give him a life sentence.

there is so much about our justice system that needs a complete overhaul.

MarshaMarshaMarsha · 05/06/2025 21:16

SingleMama0 · 05/06/2025 20:09

I think the sentence is ok tbh. Im local to this. It is terrible. I just hope the child is given lots of help and changes for the better in the time they serve. I think the girl should’ve also been charged too

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So if it was your dad, husband or child killed you’d be ok with a 7 year sentence?

Dandeliontea123 · 05/06/2025 21:14

It sends absolutely the wrong message. Kill someone weaker than you, you know there have been no consequences for local anti-social behaviour so far, film them while you laugh, show no remorse, get 7 years or a slap on the wrist.

jesihar · 05/06/2025 21:14

@SingleMama0upsetting opinion, but yours for whatever reason.

I would say that they should both have got at least twenty years. In addition this is the sort of case where the parents should be looked at as well. Prosecute them for art and part liability for failing to parent. If they are good people who have been running about trying to get help that’s their defence. Otherwise make them accountable and perhaps some of these people may start to parent their children.

MarshaMarshaMarsha · 05/06/2025 21:14

If this was my dad I’d be absolutely raging at a sentence like this. Disgusting, his poor family.

rainbowunicorn · 05/06/2025 21:13

SingleMama0 · 05/06/2025 21:07

No im not 🙄

i gave my opinion. Yes its not the same as everyone else’s.

how long does everyone else he shouldve got then?

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If we must keep scum like this alive then they should get life. There is no place in society for this scum.

AcquadiP · 05/06/2025 21:11

It was a vicious and unjustifiable attack on a vulnerable old man, seven years is disgusting.

CoubousAndTourmalet · 05/06/2025 21:11

SingleMama0 · 05/06/2025 21:07

No im not 🙄

i gave my opinion. Yes its not the same as everyone else’s.

how long does everyone else he shouldve got then?

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Minimum of 30.

FullOfLemons · 05/06/2025 21:10

SingleMama0 · 05/06/2025 21:07

No im not 🙄

i gave my opinion. Yes its not the same as everyone else’s.

how long does everyone else he shouldve got then?

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Well, if an animal did this it would be destroyed.

If the boy is going to behave like an animal then it seems reasonable to treat him as such

I don’t think we should waste money on a prison place and attempts to rehabilitate him.

So to answer your question, zero years.

Talapia · 05/06/2025 21:09

Mr Kholi died, whether they intended it or not , as a direct response of both minor's actions. Actions have consequences. Unfortunately the sentencing here is ridiculous. I hope it is reviewed.

His poor family...the judge should be ashamed of themselves, to value the life of an innocent man walking his dog so little.

SingleMama0 · 05/06/2025 21:07

NightSweatsNinja · 05/06/2025 21:05

@SingleMama0 Are you the boy's mama?

No im not 🙄

i gave my opinion. Yes its not the same as everyone else’s.

how long does everyone else he shouldve got then?

ForeveraBluebird · 05/06/2025 21:06

Making mistakes is one thing, callously killing a defenceless elderly gentleman is absolutely not an adolescent making a mistake . That’s cold blooded murder.

NightSweatsNinja · 05/06/2025 21:05

@SingleMama0 Are you the boy's mama?

AccidentallyWesAnderson · 05/06/2025 21:04

SingleMama0 · 05/06/2025 20:37

7 years? How long do you think they should get? I think imo 7 years is a good sentence given the boy was 14 when the offence happened. My opinion. People make mistakes, stupid decisions when youre an adolescent. He did wrong. I think 7 years is fair

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There’s always one.