Two men found guilty of horror Anzac Day stabbing murder of Ngor Bol

The two men accused of the Ngor Bol Anzac Day murder stabbing have discovered their fate after the jury deliberated over two days.

Ngor Bol was stabbed to death in the middle of a main road on a public holiday, and his brutal “bashing, stabbing death” was witnessed by two teenage girls who were out celebrating a birthday.

Now, the two men accused of murdering him will spend more than two decades behind bars, after a jury found them unanimously guilty of the crime.

On Tuesday afternoon, after a five week trial and several hours of deliberating over two days, the jury in the case of the two men – whose identities remain suppressed – returned a guilty verdict.

Standing side-by-side in the dock of the South Australian Supreme Court, the two men were silent as the jury foreman read their verdict for each of them. “Guilty.”

Ngor Bol was stabbed to death on Anzac Day, 2022. Photo: Facebook

Blood on Mr Bol’s cap after the murder. Photo: Courts SA

The jury found the two men had set out to murder 25-year-old Ngor Bol on Anzac Day 2022 after chasing him through the city, from Hindley St, down Sia Furler Lane, through the UniSA City West campus and finally onto North Tce.

It was there, outside the new Adelaide University research building, that Mr Bol was horrifically attacked.

CCTV footage captured the moment one of the two men repeatedly raised a knife above Mr Bol, before stabbing him multiple times.

The men are then seen running off, leaving him for dead.

During the trial, prosecutor Karen Ingleton told the jury the two men had killed Mr Bol after spending a night in various venues on Hindley St.

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.

One of the young women who witnessed the horror altercation said she saw Mr Bol lying on the floor “asking for help”.

“I saw the knife be pulled out … before he (Mr Bol) fell on the floor and both men proceeded to attack him while he was on the floor,” she said.

The scene where Ngor Bol was murdered on Anzac Day, 2022. Photo: Courts SA

Steven Millsteed KC, for one of the accused men, during the trial told the jury his client was not responsible for the “savage” attack.

“Any reasonable person viewing (the CCTV) footage, would think that it is brutal, savage and inexcusable violence. The defence does not disagree,” Mr Millsteed said.

“But it’s important that you not allow the horrible circumstances of Mr Bol’s death to deflect you from considering evidence from this case in a calm and cool way.

“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.”

However, the jury’s verdict will now see each man in jail for at least two decades, as is the mandatory minimum penalty for murder.

Justice Adam Kimber thanked the members of the jury for their service, and discharged them.

He remanded the two men in custody to face sentencing submissions in November.