Two men will spend at least two decades in jail 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 the two men, whose identities have been suppressed by the courts.
The killers showed no remorse as they were found guilty on Tuesday in the South Australian Supreme Court after a five-week trial, 7 News reported.
Sentencing submissions will take place in November, but the mandatory minimum non-parole period for a life sentence for murder is 20 years.
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.
During the trial Mr Millsteed told the jury that although the killing of Mr Bol was horrific, his client was not the responsible, and his client claimed he has never seen the murder weapon, although it had his DNA on it along with the victim’s.
Bill Boucaut KC, who defended the second murderer, also tried to convince the jury that his client was not in the CCTV footage of the attack, saying they were being “asked to speculate” who was in the footage, ABC News reported.
