Sickening footage shows the moment a surly teenager killed an 82-year-old Army veteran with a single punch after being told off for causing trouble in a Derby bus station.
Omar Moumeche, who was 16 at the time, violently attacked beloved Dennis Clarke at Derby bus station after he told off his friends for messing about on an escalator.
That's a good old Derby name, isn't it?
Moumeche, now 18, was found guilty of manslaughter in July and was sentenced to two years in youth detention at Derby Crown Court today.
*sighs*
Detective Inspector Mark Shaw said: 'Our investigation was assisted by the capture of CCTV footage and many witness accounts, all of which were presented during the trial. 'The defendant claimed he acted in self-defence, and the jury on the balance and high threshold required refused to accept his version of events.'
Yeah, it was a pretty open and shut case but I wouldn't congratulate yourself too much, if I were you:
No further action was taken against two other teenage boys who were arrested at the time in connection with the attack.
Why not? They acted in concert, after all. They should be facing the very same (utterly pathetic) consequences, shouldn't they?
And is the killer, who will be out of prison in a year's time, going to be deported?
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And why such a lenient sentence for such a heinous crime?
Yes, these days, that's a very stupid question indeed. Even if the government tried, some wet-brains on the flight they loaded him onto would probably demand the pilot halt the plane...
DeleteApart from having a "reduced sentence" card by his ethic background (didn't he racist, and must support cultural diversity), plus CPS's policy of obtaining a conviction while remaining in budget, which may explain why the other two weren't charged, whatever happened to youth custody followed by remainder of sentence in an adult prison? The judiciary should share part of the blame for this farce.
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