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Evening Standard
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Matthew Cooper

Boy accused of pensioner’s murder felt he had let his mother down, jury told

A court has heard a 15-year-old boy accused of murdering a pensioner in a park wrote a letter claiming to be suffering flashbacks, saying he hated what he had done and adding “I feel like my case is evil”.

Leicester Crown Court was told the youth, who denies the murder and manslaughter of Bhim Kohli, also wrote “I accept I did it and I am doing time” and “I kinda just needed anger etc releasing” in the letter to his intervention worker.

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