Boy was beaten to death nearby

A mother told today how her 16-year-old son was beaten to death less than two miles from where the Kingsbury body was found.

Manish Patel, of Stanmore, was returning home after his first day working for a double glazing firm on 7 July 1997 when two white boys on his bus told him to hand over his money.

The boys, also 16, followed him and attacked him. One was sentenced to three and a half years for manslaughter and the other got 80 hours community service.

Mrs Patel said: "When I heard about the boy murdered in Roe Green Park it brought it all back, I felt sick and I haven't been able to eat."