The daughter of an 80-year-old man who died after being punched and kicked by a boy while a second teenager filmed the attack has branded their behaviour "utterly disgusting".
Bhim Kohli died the day after the "intense attack" on 1 September, in which he was racially abused by the 15-year-old boy who slapped him in the face with a slider shoe while he was on his knees.
Meanwhile, a 13-year-old girl encouraged the assault and laughed as she filmed it on her phone. Both were convicted of manslaughter on Tuesday.
Speaking outside Leicester Crown Court after the verdicts were returned, Susan Kohli said the family felt "anger towards the teenagers who took dad away from us".
Mrs Kohli recalled the moment she found her dad, who had been walking his dog Rocky, at the park "screaming out" in pain after the attack at Franklin Park, in Braunstone Town, Leicestershire – just yards from his home.
Mr Kohli, the court heard, had told his daughter he had been punched in the face, kicked, and racially abused. He died from his injuries in hospital.
His cause of death was given as a neck injury causing spinal cord damage, and he had a number of other injuries including fractured ribs.
"It was horrendous, we have never seen him like that before. We all thought he would go to hospital to be treated and he would then be fine. We never imagined he wouldn't return home. My dad passed away before our eyes, surrounded by his family," she said.
