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The grainy footage lasts only a few seconds, but for Arfan Haque it is almost impossible to watch.

By ANGELLA JOHNSON
Last updated at 1:05 PM on 1st August 2010

Two teenagers land vicious punches on a 67-year-old man, who collapses to the ground. Then a three-year-old girl is seen sobbing in distress as she tries to ‘wake up’ her unconscious grandfather.

The victim was Arfan’s father Ekram, who died in hospital a week later, having suffered serious brain damage as his head hit the pavement. The trauma experienced by Arfan’s only daughter Mariam in witnessing the tragedy is immeasurable. ‘I first saw the footage while my father was in hospital. I cried because it was all so terrible,’ says Arfan. ‘It was all so senseless and the most shocking part was that it happened in front of Mariam.’

The violence was caught on CCTV camera outside a mosque in Tooting, South London, last August. Last Monday, local youths Leon Elcock, 16, and Hamza Lyzai, 15, admitted manslaughter at the Old Bailey and were jailed for four-and-a-half and three-and-a-half years respectively….Continue Reading