TWO teenagers have been jailed over the manslaughter of a 67-year-old man attacked for a “bit of fun” as he walked home from a mosque.
Ekram Haque was attacked in London last August by Leon Elcock, 16, and 15-year-old Hamza Lyzai.
Haque cracked his head after falling to the ground and suffered fatal brain damage. He died a week after the assault.
Elcock and Lyzai pleaded guilty to manslaughter and also admitted their parts in other assaults in which they “targeted people for fun,” the court heard.
Haque’s death was the culmination of a series of so-called happy slapping incidents that were recorded on mobile phones and showed youths running off and laughing afterwards.
Elcock was jailed for four-and-a-half years and Lyzai for three-and-a-half years by Old Bailey judge Martin Stephens.
“As a result of your so-called bit of fun, he was deprived of a full and contented life and his family of a devoted, inspiring and beloved father and grandfather,” the judge told Haque’s killers.
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