LONDON - A judge sentenced five boys to two years in prison Friday for stoning a 67-year-old man who collapsed and died of a heart attack as he played cricket with his son.
The boys, the youngest of whom was 10, were convicted in August of manslaughter.
Prosecutor Anthony Orchard told the Central Criminal Court the boys went on a rampage in February 2006, smashing windows and challenging another group of children to a fight in Erith, southeast London, before setting upon Ernest Norton and his son, James.
The boys threw a hail of sticks and stones at Norton. Two stones, one the size of half a brick, struck the father of two on the temple and fractured his …
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