A pensioner’s last dog walk before he was fatally attacked by two children has been captured on CCTV. Bhim Kohli, 80, was killed in Leicester in 2024 by a 14-year-old boy who was egged on by a 12-year-old girl who filmed and laughed at his deadly assault. Mr Kohli walked his beloved dog Rocky most evenings in Franklin Park, Braunstone Town, and was just yards from his home when he was attacked.

Today at Leicester Crown Court, the boy, who is now 15, was convicted of the manslaughter of a “gentle” pensioner following a six-week long trial. The girl, also now a year older, was also found guilty of manslaughter. Both teenagers were found not guilty of murder.

The trial heard that the children “used racist taunts against Mr Kohli”, a grandfather and father of three from Punjab in India who had lived in the area with his family for 40 years.

He worked in Leicester’s textile trade, running a factory that made jumpers and cardigans.

He lived with his wife Satinder, 74, in the 1970s semi-detached home on a quiet cul-de-sac next to Franklin Park.

Neighbours became used to the sight of him walking his dog through the park around 20 yards from his home every day.

On the evening of Sept 1 last year, Mr Kohli, a keen gardener who was often seen tending to his allotment, was captured on doorbell camera footage leaving his home for the last time, to walk his dog.

But as he entered Franklin Park he was followed by a group of five children.

The trial heard that the 12-year-old girl recognised Mr Kohli and claimed that he had previously tried to hit one of their friends with a stick.

The boy then put a balaclava on before approaching the lone pensioner.

The other three children then fled the park later telling police they did so because they knew the boy could be “mean” and they were scared of what he was about to do.

As the girl filmed on her phone the boy began making racist taunts before knocking Mr Kohli to his knees and slapping him round the face with a slider shoe.

As he did so, the girl could be heard laughing.

Further CCTV footage captured the two children running from the scene while Mr Kohli was left lying motionless on the ground.

The court heard that he told his daughter, who found him on the ground: “I have been punched in the face and they have kicked me.”

He also told her that he had been called a “p***”.

Mr Kohli was taken to hospital but died the following day on Sept 2.

As his victim lay in hospital dying the boy started receiving Snapchat messages from friends asking if he was involved.

In one message, he was asked if he had “leathered” Mr Kohli, to which he replied: “I watched him hit a girl and pull a knife out. So yeah.”

He later followed it up with another message saying “sorry for everything”, adding: “I f-----my life up. Everything is gone. I’m sorry bro.”

The boy’s mother had pleaded with him to come home at around 8pm the day after the attack after he messaged her to say he would not be returning because police were looking for him.

She said: “I love you all the world and more but if you don’t want me stressed just come home so it can be dealt with. You’re making it worse for yourself, just come home.”

At 9.30pm on Sept 2, 40 minutes after Mr Kohli was pronounced dead, the boy told a friend on Snapchat that he had gone home to get money so he could go “on the run”.

But eight minutes later, the boy was arrested by Leicestershire Police while hiding in a bush.

As the boy was being put into a police car after his arrest, he said: “I did it, I did it, I had my reasons, but I did it.”

In a prepared statement at the police station, the boy said it was Mr Kohli who “started it” and was “aggressive” but said he regretted what had happened.

Giving evidence in court, the boy admitted he did not see Mr Kohli pull a knife out and said he had only told his friends that because he had “panicked” and “did not want people to think bad of him”.

He denied that he wanted to hurt Mr Kohli or to kill him and denied punching, kicking or stamping on him.

After she was arrested, the girl claimed that a couple of weeks before Mr Kohli died, she was present at the park when a group of teenage boys she did not know threw apples at the pensioner.

She said Mr Kohli was agitated, called them “b-------” and kept “reaching for something in his pocket”, which she assumed was a knife, and said there were rumours spreading that he carried one.

Asked by officers if Mr Kohli was someone local youths would “poke fun at”, she said: “Yeah I think because he’s old.”

She denied trying to aggravate Mr Kohli and said she felt scared when he approached her in the park on the day of the fatal incident.

The girl, who was heard laughing in the videos she allegedly filmed of the attack, was asked by officers what she found funny.

She replied: “Just him hitting the old man. It was a bit funny at the time.”

In his closing speech to the jury, Harpreet Sandhu KC, prosecuting, said the boy had used “gratuitous violence against a man who was defenceless”.