Girl locked up for filming attack

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The girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, sobbed as she was sentenced to a two-year detention and training order at Leeds Crown Court for her part in the manslaughter of Gavin Waterhouse in September last year.

Judge James Stewart QC said the courts had to make an example of youths like her in order to try to make changes in society.

The girl pleaded guilty to manslaughter as an aider and abettor at a hearing last month after admitting she had filmed two teenage youths kicking and punching Mr Waterhouse in an unprovoked attack behind a supermarket in Keighley, West Yorkshire.

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said the conviction was thought to be the first of its kind in England and Wales.

A spokeswoman said at the time: "As far as I am aware, this is the first time a suspect in England and Wales has been successfully prosecuted for aiding and abetting murder or manslaughter, for the filming of an inaptly called 'happy slapping' incident."

Sentencing the girl, Judge Stewart said: "I've received a most moving letter from your mother about the way you were brought up and the short-comings of modern society. But it is only by making an example of youths like you that the court can do its best to try and change things."

Mr Waterhouse, 29, was attacked by Mark Masters, 19, of Parkwood Rise, Keighley, and Sean Thompson, 17, of Parkside Terrace, Cullingworth, Bradford, who both pleaded guilty to manslaughter at an earlier hearing.

Masters was sentenced to seven years in a young offenders' institution and Thompson was sentenced to six years' detention at a hearing at Leeds Crown Court last week.

Sentencing the pair, Judge Stewart said they typified "the young, drunken, violent yob who hunt in packs and of whom the public are sick and tired".