A 14-year-old boy kicked a stricken man's head "like a football" during a vicious gang attack, a murder trial has heard.
The youth and fellow assailant Joseph Byrne fist-bumped after leaving Christopher Molloy lying unconscious in the street, jurors at Liverpool Crown Court were told today. The 55-year-old victim had sought refuge in a McDonald's after being accosted near to Bootle Strand shopping centre in the early hours before he was attacked by the pair and fellow defendant Jay Byrne.
All three are currently standing trial accused of murdering Mr Molloy, who died in hospital as a result of his injuries a week later. Gordon Cole KC told the jury during the prosecution's opening on Thursday that Mr Molloy had got off a bus at around 11.30pm on July 11 last year and went to the Wild Rose on Stanley Road.
