UK racial attack: 3 teens charged with killing Indian

London: Three teenage boys were on Tuesday charged with the murder of 67-year-old man of Indian origin Ekram ul Haque, a retired careworker, in a racial attack in south London.

Haque died on Monday evening succumbing to his injuries, a week after the shocking race attack by a gang of schoolboys outside a mosque in south London on August 31. The three boys aged 12, 14 and 15, accused of the murder charge, appeared before the Croydon Youth Court on Tuesday.

Kolkata-born Haque was brutally battered by a group of teenagers outside the Idara-e-Jafferiya mosque in church Lane, Tooting.

At the time, he was waiting with his three-and-a-half year old granddaughter Mariam for a lift to go back home after praying at the mosque. The three accused will appear at the Sutton Youth court again on October 6.