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Police say four year sentence for laughing teenage kill 'not long enough'

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The four-year sentence handed to a teenager who killed a shopkeeper was simply not long enough, according to the senior detective who led the investigation.

Mr Justice Jeremy Stuart-Smith jailed the boy, who had been on bail at the time of the attack despite a sting of previous convictions, for only four years - despite warning he posed a "significant risk" to the public.

The killer, who turns 17 later this month, caught Vijaykumar Patel, 49, with a single blow during an “unprovoked attack” in January this year.

Speaking after the sentencing hearing at the Old Bailey, Detective Chief Inspector Luke Marks said: "We were hoping the sentence would be perhaps more than it was.

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