A 15-year-old young lady has conceded recording the passing of a man on her cell telephone in a supposed "joyful slapping" assault.
She confessed to supporting and abetting homicide at Leeds Crown Court in the wake of recording the assault on Gavin Waterhouse last September.
Mr Waterhouse, 29, from Keighley, later kicked the bucket from a cracked spleen.
The Crown Prosecution Service said the choice to indict the young lady was a lawful point of interest. Imprint Masters, 19, and a male, 17, have conceded murder.
Each of the three litigants will be sentenced at a later date.
As per the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), the young lady was given a cell telephone by one of the aggressors and was advised to "feature this".
She then approached Mr Waterhouse and approached him for some cash before recording the assault upon him.
Arraignment witnesses said they saw and heard the assailants bragging about what they had recently done, saying it was not the first occasion when that they had assaulted the victimized person.
'Weak assault'
Judith Naylor, from the CPS, said: "The extent that I am mindful, this is the first run through a suspect in England and Wales has been effectively indicted for helping and abetting homicide or murder, for the recording of an incompetently called 'joyful slapping' occurrence.
"The message is this: If you remained by and watch your companions perpetrating severe unlawful acts and feature their represents yours or for others' entertainment your activities won't be disregarded by the law implementation offices and indictment may take after."
Neil Atkinson, from the North of England Victims' Association (Neva), said: "It's loathsome to consider individuals commending the agony and enduring and consequent demise of somebody in the way that has clearly occurred for this situation."
He said Neva accepted the three young people ought to get long custodial sentences however was worried about the current "abominable feeble sentencing" of culprits in the UK.
"In the event that they served one to two years in jail, is this kind of individual prone to be cured or prevented by that short jail sentence?
"Practical judgment skills says that they would not."
Det Supt Paul Kennedy, from West Yorkshire Police, said: "We are satisfied with the result of this police examination after what was an unmerited and yellow assault. Our contemplations are with Gavin's gang."
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