Arab student 'kicked to death in racists' attack'

Mohammed Al Majed, 16, who was learning English at a summer school, was murdered on Hastings seafront by a gang of white youths, police believe.

He is understood to be the son of a wealthy family in the Gulf state of Qatar. Friends last night described him as "like a brother to everyone".

Mohammed and his classmates, who were in the last week of a course at the EF Languages School, were attacked as they left a social club for foreign students shortly before midnight on Friday.

The youths repeatedly stamped on Mohammed's head and he died in hospital. Detectives are treating it as a racially motivated murder.

The group had been at the club, which incorporates a kebab shop, owned by Remzi Tanriverdi. He said he had warned police of the troublemakers hours before the attack.

The 43-year-old, who used to work for the UN in Turkey, said trouble started after a pair of local teenagers started drinking cans of lager on the picnic benches outside. They were soon joined by two more youths.