{"id":149999,"date":"2023-11-21T09:15:39","date_gmt":"2023-11-21T14:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=149999"},"modified":"2023-11-20T19:45:06","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T00:45:06","slug":"teen-receives-two-year-sentence-for-veterans-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=149999","title":{"rendered":"Teen receives two-year sentence for veteran’s death"},"content":{"rendered":"

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An 82-year-old UK veteran lost his life in the aftermath of being assaulted by a teen. Video footage shows Omar Moumeche, then 16, and his friends playing around an escalator and blocking it. The veteran, Dennis Clarke, approaches and talks to them. They were blocking the escalator. The teens later catch up to Clarke, Moumeche subsequently attacks him. Clarke falls and suffers injuries that would lead to his passing away nine days later. Moumeche, now 18, subsequently received a two-year sentence.<\/p>\n

From the New York Post:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

A UK teenager was sentenced to two years in detention after he killed an elderly man with a single punch, surveillance footage shows.<\/p>\n

Omar Moumeche was 16 when he punched Dennis Clarke, 82, at a Derby bus station — located roughly 80 miles outside of Manchester — in May 2021.<\/p>\n

Clarke suffered a fractured skull and a brain bleed, causing him to die in the hospital nine days later.<\/p>\n

The now-18-year-old was sentenced to two years in youth detention Friday after being convicted of manslaughter in July.<\/p>\n

While at Derby’s Eagle Market, Clarke stopped to talk to a group of teens who were playing around on top of the escalator, blocking it, surveillance footage released by Derbyshire Constabulary shows.<\/p>\n

The Army veteran — who served in Singapore — then leaves the supermarket and heads toward the bus station around 4:30 p.m., but the group of three teens follow him.<\/p>\n

The teens were seen surrounding him, and Moumeche pushed the elderly man. Clarke then pushed him back.<\/p>\n

Seconds later, Clarke was seen falling to the ground, striking his head and falling unconscious, police said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The New York Post as the rest of the story, and video of the event, here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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