Overview

• Judge Judy Khan KC ordered youth detention terms of four years, three and a half years, and two and a half years, totaling nine years after guilty pleas to manslaughter on October 3.
• CCTV and mobile phone videos showed the girls surrounding Fredi Rivero on Seven Sisters Road, pulling off his glasses, and one delivering the punch that caused a fatal head injury.
• Prosecutors described Mr Rivero as particularly vulnerable due to his age and ill health, while the court heard he made peace signs and said he wanted to go home.
• Metropolitan Police arrested the teenagers within hours using CCTV and phone analysis after they initially tried to blame one another and falsely claim harassment.
• Investigators recovered other violent clips from the defendants’ phones, with the court noting prior offences for some and a pattern of recorded assaults despite the defendants’ traumatic backgrounds.