A TEENAGER who triggered a homophobic murder on a gay council worker was locked up for 12 months today.
The 15-year-old knocked James Kerr to the ground before his two friends launched a savage assault, leaving him dying in a pool of blood.
The schoolboy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, contacted one of his friends after running into Mr Kerr, 51, in a park in Perth, Scotland, telling them he had been assaulted.
He had originally faced a murder charge but a guilty plea to a reduced charge of assault was accepted by the Crown in the early stages of the trial.
Sentencing at the High Court in Edinburgh, Judge Lord Macphail told the youth his own attack had been homophobic and unprovoked, and that he had approved of his friends’ brutal killing.
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