A pair of African killers have been jailed for more than two decades each for murdering another Sudanese male in Adelaide in a barbaric attack which occurred during an African crime wave.
Ngor Bol, 25, was chased through the city’s CBD on Anzac Day, 2022, before being stabbed six times, kicked in the head and stomped on by two men who had travelled to South Australia from Victoria – Thocrial Agoth, 24, and a 20-year-old who cannot be named because he was under 18 at the time.
Supreme Court Justice Adam Kimber on Friday sentenced Agoth to life with a 24-year non-parole period, and the other man to life with a 26-year non-parole period, since the younger man did the stabbing, the Advertiser reported.
Both men had violent criminal histories and had violated court orders banning them from leaving Victoria. Neither reacted as during sentencing.
“It is disturbing that any person, let alone a youth, could repeatedly stab a person on the ground who was posing no threat,” Justice Kimber said in sentencing, saying Mr Bol was murdered in a “brutal fashion”.
“I am satisfied, beyond a reasonable doubt, that your intention was to kill Mr Bol at the time of both fatal injuries.
“Indeed, I am satisfied, beyond a reasonable doubt, that was your intention at the time of every blow with the knife.”
The court heard in sentencing submissions last month that family members of Mr Bol had returned to their home countrie since they no longer feel safe in Australia as a result of African crime.
The killers showed no remorse when they were found guilty in August after a five-week trial.
The attack, which defence lawyer for one of the killers, Steven Millsteed KC, described as “brutal, savage and inexcusable”, came after a spate of stabbings affecting Adelaide’s small Sudanese community.
The wave of violence was blamed at the time on gang members from Melbourne travelling interstate to purse vendettas, and Premier Peter Malinauskas acknowledged there were issues within the Sudanese and other African communities.
Header image: Left, Ngor Bol (Facebook). Right, Thocrial Agoth (7News)
