Croydon: Murderers who stabbed man to death after using 'tracker device' have sentences lengthened

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Donald Owusu (left) and Harvey Macfoy had their sentences stretched/Met Police

Two men who wounded a Croydon man to death have been given an additional two years in jail as their unique sentences were judged excessively permissive.
Donald Owusu and Harvey Macfoy utilized a tracker gadget to find Albert Amofa, who they accepted was conveying weed, on December 15, 2019, and wounded him outside his home.

Mr Amofa, 33, was cut multiple times in his upper leg hitting his femoral conduit and passed on from his wounds two days after the fact as Owusu and Macfoy ran away from the area with nothing.

Owusu, 25, was condemned to life detainment for homicide with a base term of 25 years and Macfoy, 26, 21 years as well as 20 extra month sentence to run simultaneously for expecting to debase the course of equity.
In any case, the Court of Allure got a reference from parties who accepted the sentences were too low and afterward maintained the judgment in a meeting on Thursday.

The court raised Owusu's base sentence to 27 years and Macfoy's to 23 years' detainment.

Talking after the consultation, specialist general Michael Tomlinson said: "The silly and awful homicide of Albert Amofa has made incomprehensible agony and experiencing his family, and my considerations are with them today.

"I invite the court's choice to increment the two sentences today as I accept they better mirror the goal behind this dreadful assault."

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