During the trial of a 13-year-old boy accused of harassing three gay men, witness Howard Jeans-Seymour said he believed one of a group of youngsters outside his home was much smaller than the others.
“I would put the smaller one at around three to four,” he told Judge Joti Bopa-Rai at Gloucester Youth Court, after he was asked about a group of youngsters with the alleged attacker.
The court heard that homophobic abuse stopped when police installed closed circuit television outside the home Mr Jeans-Seymour shares with his partner Imad Belkhadria and Mark Fern in November 2008. But it was removed a few months later and it is alleged the abuse started again.
The defendant, who was 12 at the time of the alleged attacks, denies a charge of conduct which amounted to the harassment of Mr Jeans- Seymour by throwing snowballs and coins and by shouting homophobic abuse. He denies two similar charges relating to Mr Fern and Mr Belkhadria, another of abusing all three men, and of assault on another boy.
Source - gloucestershire.co.uk
