The girl filmed the boys chasing Cashford as she shouted “get him”, the court heard.<\/p>\n
After he was arrested, the 16-year-old boy shared footage of the attack with three people. <\/p>\n
“This was a carefully pre-planned deliberate and violent attack on someone who was not expecting it and who could not defend himself,” said Natalie Smith, senior crown prosecutor from the Crown Prosecution Service. <\/p>\n
“Despite his best attempts to flee, he was relentlessly pursued and attacked, even when witnesses reported he was lying on the ground.”<\/p>\n
The three teenagers \u2013 who cannot be named for legal reasons \u2013 were acquitted of murder on Monday.<\/p>\n
They are expected to be sentenced for manslaughter in April.<\/p>\n
“These verdicts will change their lives forever,” said the judge Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The girl filmed the boys chasing Cashford as she shouted “get him”, the court heard. After he was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429087,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-429086","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}