December 15, 2005
Happy Slapping youths convicted of manslaughter
A gang of youths who kicked a bar manager to death during one of their regular rampages of happy slapping violence were convicted of manslaughter yesterday, reports The Times.
Mr Morley, a survivor of the Admiral Duncan pub bombing, was one of eight people savagely assaulted by the group in an hour-long rampage of indiscriminate “happy slapping” attacks last October.
"... The teenage girl had approached Mr Morley, 37, who was sitting with a friend Alastair Whiteside on London’s South Bank, pointed her mobile phone camera at him and said: “We’re doing a documentary on happy slapping. Pose for the camera.” After her friends had beaten him to the ground, she then kicked Mr Morley in the head two or three times, according to Mr Whiteside. A post-mortem examination likened his injuries to those suffered by a car crash victim or someone who had fallen from a great height."
Links to reported Happy Slapping incidents.
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