Teen apologises for attack on elderly Canadian Sikh

TORONTO: A teenaged boy has apologised for viciously beating up an elderly Indo-Canadian Sikh in a park in British Columbia two years ago.

The victim died a month after being attacked. “I am really ashamed of myself. I have no excuses and I should be punished. I’m sorry,” said the boy. The accused apologised during his hearing at the British Columbia Supreme Court on Wednesday. He had attacked Mewa Singh Bains, 83, with a baseball bat in a park washroom.

A spokeswoman for the victim’s family said the apology was not acceptable as the boy could have said so at the beginning of the trial, and not now.