Two men given 46 years for murder not enough for the ‘infinite loss and pain’ of victim’s family
Two men have been given life sentences after they were found guilty of murder in a drug robbery gone wrong.
Donald Owusu, 25, of no fixed address, was sentenced to a minimum of 25 years and Harvey MacFoy, 26, of Beachborough Road, Bromley, received life with a minimum of 21 years, after they were both found guilty of the murder of 33-year-old Albert Amofa.
The two men targeted Mr Amofa at around 9.10pm on December 15, 2019, in mistaken belief that he had a large quantity of cannabis and attacked him at his home in in Drake Road, Croydon.
In the struggle that ensued Owusu stabbed Mr Amofa multiple times in the leg and he died the next day in hospital.
Mr Amofa’s family said: “Albert’s death has predictably devastated our family and also affected us in ways that you cannot imagine.
“A mother has lost her son, a son has lost his father, siblings and cousins lost a brother; the list goes on.
“Albert’s wife is now a single parent through no choice of her own, having to navigate life without her husband to parent their son into adulthood.
“Whatever the sentences handed out today, it would never be enough to compensate for the infinite loss and pain in our lives. Albert’s cheeky smile along with kind and caring nature lives on his son.”
The court heard how Owusu and MacFoy had put a considerable amount of planning into the attack on Mr Amofa.
Met detectives established that a Peugeot car had been used by attackers through CCTV and just over a week after the murder, a car-hire firm reported one of their Peugeots stolen.
The car had been hired around a week earlier and had been paid for by the girlfriend of MacFoy.
The Peugeot was found by police abandoned in a residential street in Nottingham and a forensics team found Mr Amofa’s blood in the car, indicating that Owusu, MacFoy or both had been in the vehicle after the attack.
The attackers had also fitted a tracker to Mr Amofa’s Mercedes, which was then used as evidence against them as it had Owusu’s DNA on it and detectives found out where it had been purchased from, using mobile phone masts to discover that Owusu and MacFoy had purchased it from a shop in Camden, north London.
Vehicle data showed the car had been driven and parked in Onslow Road, Croydon minutes before the attack on Mr Amofa and had been driven away from the area almost immediately after the suspects were seen fleeing Drake Road.
A third man, Theo Brown, 32, of Horsham, West Sussex, was found guilty of perverting the course of justice for his role in disposing of the hire car used in the attack.
He received nine months’ imprisonment and another person involved in the attack is yet to be identified.
Pictured top: left, Harvey MacFoy, right, Donald Owusu Picture: The Met
