A teenage boy who killed elderly dog walker Bhim Kohli near Leicester will not have his sentence for manslaughter changed, the Court of Appeal has ruled.

Mr Kohli, 80, was punched and kicked, slapped in the face with a shoe and racially abused in an attack in Franklin Park, Braunstone Town, on September 1 last year. He died the next day.

The teenager, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced in June to seven years in custody. He was 15 at the time.

The Attorney General’s Office announced in July that the sentence would be reviewed at the Court of Appeal under the unduly lenient sentence scheme.

Lawyers for the teenager had also bid to have the sentence reduced.

After a six-week trial at Leicester Crown Court, the boy was convicted of manslaugh

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