Boy, 16, ELECTROCUTED after being chased onto train tracks by armed gang who bashed him with a hammer
A 16-YEAR-OLD boy was electrocuted after being chased onto train tracks by an armed gang.
Ted Warne-Harvey was running from youths wielding weapons in Kent before tripping onto a live rail.
The teen was attacked with a hammer moments before he fell, with the terrifying ordeal caught on CCTV on September 26, 2021.
After he was electrocuted, near Westgate-on-Sea railway station, Ted lay prone on the track with his body visibly "smoking," jurors heard.
His attackers, some just 15, fled the scene leaving the injured boy on the tracks until a have-a-go hero jumped down and pulled him to safety.
The violent gang of youths were brandishing a hammer and a metal pole - and were later convicted of causing grievous bodily harm with intent.
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Young Ted suffered life-changing burns and required three operations, including plastic surgery, after the horror chase.
Last week, two of the yobs Declan Stewart and James Odero were accused of "encouraging and assisting" the violence.
At the time of the attack, Stewart and Odero were aged 16 and 17 respectively.
Ted was described by his father as a very active boy who boxes, plays the drums, and rides his bike.
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Earlier that year, the schoolboy had been a victim of a hit-and-run incident while he was cycling up Blean Hill, near Canterbury.
Dad Stuart Harvey, 53, received the phone call at 6.20pm from him before answering one that would make him "beside himself" with worry.
He recalls: "Twenty minutes later I got another call from him, screaming down the phone to me in pain, saying he'd been hit by a car.
"It later turned out to be two cars. I was beside myself.
"I had been expecting him to come home and the next thing I knew he was asking me to come quickly because he'd been hit."
He raced to find his son to find him lying on the curb with blood all over his hands and shaking profusely.
Both cars had sped off abandoning him on the side of the road and leaving Ted without any recollection of the cars involved.
The teenager was rushed to a hospital in Margate where doctors informed him he'd suffered from multiple fractures to his foot, ankle, lower leg, arm, wrist and hand.
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Stuart says he has no doubt that his son could have been killed in the collision.
Ted's parents, Stuart and Laura Harvey, made it clear they were keen to see the drivers brought to justice.