Angry about lenient sentence for murder of elderly man in park

Animals are better than that. They are monsters.

It's a shockingly lenient sentence. And the judge's comment that racism had nothing to do with it is stunningly ignorant.

They behaved like animals.

What that poor man went through.

Exactly - these are not wide eyed innocent children. They targeted him previouly with racist abuse, and the boy deliberately beat an old man to death, while the girl filmed it on her phone while laughing.

There’s something very wrong with these young people, and I don’t think a few years locked away is going to cure that.

Me too. Bhim Kohli's family must be devastated. It's just unbelievable.
The girl had taken photos of Mr Kohli previously, so it was hardly a random attack, there was clearly an element of playing to it.
The sentencing beggars belief, and I have a generally liberal attitude to crime and justice. I believe that offenders (particularly young offenders) deserve rehabilitation and understanding, and that prison purely as a means of punishment is ineffective. But I find this ridiculously lenient.

RIP Mr Kohli. I hope his family find peace somehow and that his memory is a blessing.

I find it strange that the offenders are given mitigation due to their young ages, but there isn’t the same acknowledgement of the victim’s elderly age/ frailty and corresponding vulnerability.
Surely that should be an aggravating factor.

And what on earth do we do with them now?

Of course tt's not like there's an age when such violence IS understandable.

Just, how have they got themselves (how have other people got them) to that place where they behaved like that. At those ages.

The boy was aged 14 when he did this, and the girl 12 years old.

It's mind blowing.

I don't know what to think about the sentencing. I still can't get my head round their actions. At those ages.

I haven't read it. The news is so upsetting at the moment. I agree with you from what you've said.

Disgraceful. I cried when I read how he was killed.

It's because they are children so sentencing guidelines for children apply. The girl's lesser sentence will reflect her younger age and that whilst she is guilty of manslaughter by joint enterprise she didn't physically assault the victim.

Couldn’t face reading the whole article as it was so upsetting and depressing. That poor family. The incident itself and the sentencing are just horrendous.

There's another thread about this. But you're not wrong at all. What disgusting and shocking behaviour, these people should not see the light of day until we can be confident they don't pose a risk to society.