Tooting race attack victim Ekram Haque dies
Pensioner Haque was brutally attacked by three youths in front of his three-year-old granddaughter outside a mosque in south-west London
8 September 2009
THE Tooting grandfather who was viciously beaten in a race-hate attack by schoolboys has died.
Ekram Haque, 67, was battered in front of his three-year-old granddaughter Marian outside a mosque in Tooting, south-west London, where he had been attending evening prayers during the holy month of Ramadan.
The devout Muslim was ambushed from behind and hit over the head as he held the child’s hand on 31 August.
Although the gang was chased off by worshippers at the Idara E Jaaferiya mosque in Church Lane, retired care worker Haque collapsed to the floor with horrific head injuries.
Scotland Yard said the "racially motivated" attack is now being treated as a murder investigation.
Murder squad detectives are investigating the attack and similar assaults on at least three other elderly Asians in the area.
His son Arfan, 35, told how Marian was left "very shaken and disturbed" by the attack a week ago.
He said: "My father loved living in Britain and considered himself a Londoner."
A boy aged 14 was today due to appear at Sutton Youth Court in connection with the assault.
Three other boys, aged 12, 14 and 15, are charged with committing GBH, and two further assaults.
A post-mortem examination will be scheduled in due course.
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