Overview
- Awad Abdel Samad, 24, was jailed for life with a minimum term of 27 years after a jury rejected his self-defence claim and convicted him of murder.
- Co-defendant Mohamad Mahmoud El-Hazzaa was sentenced to three years in prison for attempting to pervert the course of justice.
- Judge Lynn Tayton said Samad acted with extreme aggression as part of a group in a public attack on a congested street.
- Court evidence showed Mohamed Abdi was disarmed, pursued, and stabbed three times, including a fatal wound to the heart, before he collapsed on Bell Street despite rescue efforts.
- Prosecutors said the violence followed a kidnapping of the defendants’ friend two days earlier, though the court heard there was no evidence linking Abdi to that incident.