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 Australia: Sudanese killed in racist attack
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A SYDNEY teenager who punched a Sudanese refugee to the ground, fatally injuring him when his head hit the footpath has been given a six year jail term in the New South Wales Supreme Court today.
The boy, known only as KT, was 16 when he punched father-of-four Kuol Agang in a "senseless act of violence" after throwing an egg at the 28-year-old refugee in January last year.
KT and two friends had been driving around Auburn, in Sydney's southwest, on January 31 last year, throwing eggs at strangers in an "immature" act known as "egging", Justice Peter Johnson said today.
Mr Agang, who came to Australia as a refugee with his family only five months earlier, had thrown a drink bottle at the back of a car after KT threw an egg at him.
KT then confronted Mr Agang, punching him in the jaw so hard the 28-year-old fell to the ground, cracking his head on the pavement.
"Thereafter, as the victim lay on the ground, KT threatened him with a further assault," he said.
KT and his friends then fled the scene.
Mr Agang, of Granville, died in hospital four days later.
In sentencing him to a minimum four-year term, Justice Johnson said KT would have heard Mr Agang's head crack as it hit the pavement.
"He realised that Mr Agang had been injured," Justice Johnson said.
"Rather than offering assistance to Mr Agang, KT said loudly: "You want more, I'll be back."
In a victim impact statement read to the court, Mr Agang's wife said the family "escaped persecution and possible risk of death only to be met, within months, with the sudden and senseless death of Mr Agang".
KT will be eligible for parole in February 2010, a day after his 21st birthday
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