A schoolboy who launched a hate crime assault with two friends on a black youth has been spared jail - and punished with household chores in a soft justice outrage.
His victim, 15, was held down and kicked to the head by the group, before being called a black c by one of the thugs.
The attack, which took place in a children s play area in Wokingham, Berks, only came to light after sick footage of the attack was sent to police in October.
Legal reasons mean the attackers cannot be named and were referred to as boy A, boy B and boy C by magistrates hearing the case in Reading Youth Court.
Forster Square arches A teenager was exploited and abducted by criminal gangs when he committed a spree of eight violent street robberies in central Bradford, a court heard yesterday. The youth, who cannot be named because of his age, attacked boys and male students, snatching phones and money and producing a knife on one occasion. He pleaded guilty to eight robberies committed when he was aged 14 to 16 and was sentenced to a nine-month Youth Rehabilitation Order with a five-month overnight curfew. His barrister, Christopher Styles, said the teenager was exploited by criminal gangs and pressured into carrying out the robberies. At one point, he was abducted and forced to sell drugs in Swansea.
Boy, aged 12, banned from Plymouth estate after wrecking spree
The youngster damaged four cars, a telephone line and the same garden fence twice
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