BREAKING NEWS: Teens get eight years for pensioner death (From Your Local Guardian)

BREAKING NEWS: Tooting teens get eight years for Ekram Haque's death

11:16am Monday 26th July 2010 in Wandsworth By Court Reporter

Ekram Haque

Two Tooting teenagers responsible for the manslaughter of pensioner Ekram Haque were jailed at the Old Bailey this morning.

Leon Elcock, 16, of Osborne Terrace, and Hamza Lyzai, 15, of Franciscan Road, received a total of eight years between them.

The paid admitted manslaughter, as well as charges of assault occasioning actual bodily harm, on June 16 this year.

Judge Martin Stephens sentenced Elcock to four-and-a-half years and Lyzai to three-and-a-half years.

Mr Haque was punched unconscious in front of his three-year-old granddaughter, Miriam, during a happy slapping attack outside the Idara-e-Jafferiya mosque in Church Lane, Tooting, last August.

He died one week later in hospital.

The court allowed the pair to be named today after requests from the press.

A third 15-year-old, whose identity is still protected, has been given a six-month detention and training order.

Earlier in the proceedings, he pleaded guilty to assault charges on random victims in the run up to the attack on Mr Haque.

Two other men - from Ewell and Thornton Heath - were attacked less than a minute before Mr Haque.

Keep checking wandsworthguardian.co.uk for the full report.