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Boys, 14, guilty of murdering man | |
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Two schoolboys have been found guilty of murdering a partially-sighted man who died the day after they attacked him while he waited for a tram. | Two schoolboys have been found guilty of murdering a partially-sighted man who died the day after they attacked him while he waited for a tram. |
The boys were both 14 when they kicked Colin Greenwood, 45, in the head and body at the Middlewood tram terminus in Sheffield in April. | |
Sheffield Crown Court heard how Mr Greenwood, a father of five, died from a brain injury the next morning. | Sheffield Crown Court heard how Mr Greenwood, a father of five, died from a brain injury the next morning. |
The boys, now 14 and 15, were found guilty on Friday following a trial. | The boys, now 14 and 15, were found guilty on Friday following a trial. |
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Both looked stunned as the foreman of the jury returned the verdicts after three-and-a-half hours of deliberations. | |
The mother of one of the teenagers broke into uncontrollable sobbing and shouted to her son from the public gallery. | |
The court earlier heard Mr Greenwood was heading to visit his children when he was attacked. | |
Prosecutors said the boys pretended to punch him and threatened to stab him with a penknife. | |
He kicked out at them and fell, and as he tried to get up, one of the boys kicked his forehead, causing his head to bounce off the pavement. | |
Mr Greenwood got up after the attack, but later collapsed as he got off a bus, and died in hospital the next morning. | |
The teenagers will be sentenced on 5 October. |
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