Kurdish teenager suffered brain damage in gang attack

A 12-strong gang attacked a Kurdish teenager in a ‘disgraceful and cowardly display of violence’ outside a pub, a court heard. Reker Ahmed, 17, suffered a brain haemorrhage after he was attacked by drinkers who piled out of The Goat in Croydon, south London, shortly before midnight last March 31. Ben Harman, 21, Barry Potts, 21, Jack Walder, 24, George Jeffrey, 21, and Ellie Leite, 19, are accused of violent disorder following the attack on the Shrublands Estate. Prosecutor Ben…