An Asian gang kicked and stamped a computer worker to death on a university campus before declaring "we killed a white man"

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Christopher Yates, 30, had been out celebrating a friend's birthday when he was set on by the three men who knocked him to the ground before kicking and stamping on him as if they were "playing football", the Old Bailey was told.

Mr Yates, a data inputter, had just seen a female friend onto a bus to make sure she got home safely after going out for her birthday, the jury heard.

But he was then set upon in the car park of Barking's University of East London by Zahid Bashir, 23, Imran Maqsood, 21 and Sajid Zulfiqar, 25, the court was told.

The trio kicked him repeatedly and stamped on his head, leaving him fatally injured in the street before fleeing the scene, it was alleged.

But they continued the violence on the early hours of November 7 last year, smashing cars as they ran off, threatening a householder and then assaulting a curry waiter and a passer-by in nearby Ilford, the jury heard.

The three then fled London but were arrested five days later 200 miles away in Pontefract, West Yorkshire, said Anthony Leonard QC, prosecuting.

He told the court how Mr Yates had spent the evening out with friends to celebrate a female acquaintance's birthday. After the night out he had accompanied her to a bus stop to see her safely home.

She caught her bus in the early hours of the morning but as Mr Yates was walking near the car park of the university in Barking's Longbridge Road he was set upon, the jury heard.

Mr Leonard said: "It is not possible to say what caused the attack to take place. It was on any view a ferocious attack - after he was felled to the ground he was kicked about the body and head and his head was stamped on with some force.

"He was kicked violently. Whatever caused them to attack him drink played a part."

The court heard that people on the campus had witnessed the attack and been able to identify some of the defendants, including Zulfiqar - referred to as 'the fat Pakistani'.

Mr Leonard said: "The three defendants were stood around the deceased and began to kick him and stamp on him once he had fallen to the ground. One witness likened the noises he heard to someone playing football - he could hear kicking and stamps.

"A teenage girl heard the fat Pakistani - Zulfiqar - saying 'we killed a white man'."

The three then left the scene, setting off car alarms as they went and later assaulting a waiter in a curry restaurant, the jury heard.

Meanwhile, other people had gone to Mr Yates' aid but were unable to find a pulse, said Mr Leonard. He died shortly after.

"A post mortem was carried out", he said. "Severe force had been used to cause injuries to the head. The deceased had sustained extensive fracturing to the facial bones as a result of multiple stamps or kicks.

"There were no signs he had tried to defend himself. That is because it happened very suddenly. The cause of death was given as facial injuries."

UK: Muslim Gang "Kill a White Man" on Campus