[6] On the night of the attack, Chen, Jia, and their chef, surnamed Wah, wielding various tools and bottles as melee weapons, confronted a group of youths who had gathered outside the takeaway, chasing them onto a nearby housing estate.
As the trio turned to leave, Chen was attacked by the youths, who had returned armed with make-shift weapons of their own, which included wooden clubs, metal pipes, a garden hoe and a spade.
[4] The pathologist who examined the body found that it had a fractured skull, a broken jaw, and a partly crushed brain; and said the cause of death was blunt-force trauma to the head.
[10] Hughes, who was identified as the ringleader, claimed that the group had come to the shop that night to "have revenge" for a previous incident in which the 15 year old girl was struck in the head by the takeaway workers during an argument.
[13] Detective chief inspector Steve Crimins of Greater Manchester Police said the attack was not racially motivated, and that "[t]o say that any failure to deal with previous incidents led directly to the death of Mr Chen is ludicrous".