Overview

• On August 13, the Court of Appeal will decide whether to extend the 15-year-old’s seven-year detention for manslaughter and hear his challenge to the sentence.
• The Attorney General’s Office announced in July that Solicitor General Lucy Rigby referred the boy’s sentence under the unduly lenient scheme.
• Susan Kohli has urged the Independent Office for Police Conduct to re-examine delayed arrests after learning police identified the suspects weeks before the fatal assault.
• Leicestershire Police say the IOPC found no misconduct and they have since improved recording and tagging of anti-social behaviour alongside community surveys, school outreach and patrols.
• The boy was convicted of manslaughter in June and given seven years’ detention, while a 13-year-old girl received a three-year youth rehabilitation order for filming the attack.