Overview

• A Leicester Crown Court jury convicted the 15-year-old of manslaughter in April after he punched, kicked and racially abused 80-year-old Bhim Kohli while a girl filmed parts of the assault.
• In June Mr Justice Turner sentenced him to seven years’ detention and imposed a three-year youth rehabilitation order with a six-month curfew on the 13-year-old girl.
• Solicitor General Lucy Rigby refer­red the boy’s term following campaigns by Kohli’s family and local MPs who argued the sentence was too lenient.
• The Court of Appeal will review the detention under the UK’s unduly lenient sentence scheme and decide whether to increase the term.
• The girl’s non-custodial order will remain intact after the Attorney General’s Office concluded it did not meet the threshold for appeal.