Overview

• Footage played in court shows Mr Rivero making peace signs, his glasses being taken, and a punch that sent him to the ground where he suffered a fatal head injury.
• Police found the 75-year-old unconscious and in cardiac arrest; he died the next day at the Royal London Hospital from a traumatic brain injury.
• Mr Rivero’s daughter told the court his death was “forced upon him by three girls” and described him as a gentle, ill elderly man who simply wanted to go home.
• The defendants, now aged 15, 17 and 17, have pleaded guilty to manslaughter and are being sentenced at the Old Bailey before Judge Judy Khan KC.
• Prosecutors called the attack unprovoked and recorded on mobile phones, noting prior offending by at least one girl, false claims that the victim harassed them, and remarks about fleeing or going to prison.