<p><br /> Two teenage members of a "happy slapping" gang have been detained for the death of a 67-year-old man as he walked home from a mosque with his three-year-old granddaughter.<br /> </p><p><br /> Ekram Haque was attacked by Leon Elcock, 16, and Hamza Lyzai, 15, in Tooting, south London.<br /> </p><p><br /> Mr Haque cracked his head after being struck to the ground, suffering irreparable brain damage, and died a week after the assault last August.<br /> </p><p><br /> Elcock and Lyzai, both from Tooting, pleaded guilty to manslaughter and also admitted their parts in other assaults in which, the court heard, they had "targeted people for fun".<br /> </p><p><br /> Mr Haque's death was the culmination of a series of "happy slapping" incidents which were recorded on mobile phone footage and showed youths running off and laughing afterwards.<br /> </p><p><br /> Elcock was locked up for four and a half years and Lyzai for three and a half years by Old Bailey judge Martin Stephens.<br /> </p><p><br /> The judge told Mr Haque's killers: "As a result of your so-called bit of fun he was deprived of a full and contented life and his family of a devoted, inspiring and beloved father and grandfather."<br /> </p><p><br /> He lifted restrictions on naming the pair as a warning to others "who may be tempted to indulge in such appalling behaviour".<br /> </p><p><br /> A third youth, aged 15, who cannot be named, was locked up for six months after admitting, with Elcock, to actual bodily harm against a couple in their 70s.<br /> </p>
