Trial continues in the Supreme Court for two men accused of murdering Ngor Bol

A witness to the stabbing death of a man in the CBD told a court he heard someone say ‘I’m going to stab you’ before the alleged murder.

The knife allegedly used in the murder of a young man was thrown into a Uni SA bike cage and found by a staff member, a court has heard.

Two men have been charged with murdering Ngor Bol after the alleged altercation on North Tce outside the Uni SA City West Campus on Anzac Day in 2022. They have pleaded not guilty.

Prosecutors allege that at 2am, the duo, armed with a knife, chased Mr Bol from Morphett St, through Sia Furler Lane and the University campus, before brutally bashing and stabbing him at the intersection of Fenn Place and North Tce.

Mr Bol died on the road shortly after.

On Thursday, the Supreme Court heard a University of South Australia staff member was storing his bike in the City West campus bike shed the following day when he noticed a knife on the ground and called security.

Police were then called and seized the knife as evidence.

The jury went on a view of the alleged murder scene on Wednesday morning. Picture: Dean Martin

Giving evidence on Thursday, a hotel guest who was staying at the Rockford Hotel on Hindley St said he was woken in the early hours of the morning on April 25, 2022.

The man said he saw a group of about five men chasing another man while yelling and screaming.

“I heard someone say ‘I’m going to stab you’ … I’m going to get you’,” he said.

The man said he saw a “shiny object” in the hand of one of the men.

“I then observed him lunging at this other bloke … as if he was going to stab him or cut him or something,” he said.

“He dodged it, defected it sort of jumped out of the way or something and that’s when he took off.”

Ngor Bol was allegedly stabbed to death on Anzac Day, 2022. Picture: 9News

Prosecutor Karen Ingleton told the jury in her opening statement that earlier in the evening, a group of young African men spent several hours on Hindley St before some of them were captured on CCTV running in a westerly direction towards Morphett St.

They were then seen running towards the University, when CCTV allegedly captured a man, believed to be Mr Bol, being “chased by a number of men”.

“Mr Bol runs down a street, and then turns and runs down Fenn Place to the intersection with North Tce,” Ms Ingleton said.

She said one of the accused men then stabbed him six times in the middle of the road, while the other then stomped on and kicked his head.

The intersection where Ngor Bol was allegedly murdered. Picture: Brenton Edwards

She said the second man stood there watching Mr Bol being stabbed, before “deliberately stomping on the right side of his head and neck”.

“Then they both turn and run away.”

Steven Millsteed KC, for one of the accused men, however said his client was not responsible for the “savage” attack.

“It would not be an argument from defence that Mr Bol was not murdered. The pivotal issue in (my client’s) case is the prosecution’s contention that he was the stabber,” he said.

The trial, before a jury, continues.