Three Asian men who bragged âwe killed a white manâ after kicking an office worker to death were jailed for life on Thursday. Christopher Yates, a 30-year-old data inputter, was killed in Barking, east London, after he had walked a female friend to her bus on November 7,2004. On his way home, he entered the grounds of the University of East London where the three men knocked him down and kicked his head like a football, inflicting what police called âhorrific facial injuries.â Imran Maqsood (22), Zarhid Bashir (24) and Sajid Zulfiqar (26) were sentenced to life imprisonment at the Old Bailey. A witness heard one of them say after the attack, âThat will teach a white man to interfere in Paki business.â But the judge ruled the attack was not racially motivated, ordering they should each serve a minimum of 15 years, for the âcallous and brutal murder of a decent man who was doing you no harm.â
After murdering Yates, the three men, who had spent the evening drinking in Londonâs West End, went on to smash up cars and assault staff in a curry restaurant. âBetween you that morning you attacked people of all races, white, black and Asian,â said judge Martin Stephens. âThese in my judgment were random attacks carried out on people who had the misfortune to come across you in your drink-fuelled rampage.â