Jacob Carroll and Jordan Davies are jailed for murdering Joevester Takyi-Sarpong in Doncaster.
Two drug dealers who stabbed a rival in the legs and left him to bleed to death have been jailed for life.
Passing sentence at Sheffield Crown Court, Judge Jeremy Richardson QC said the pair's attack in October 2021 was to "scare him off their patch".Image caption,The court heard Mr Takyi-Sarpong had been walking through Doncaster with a friend on 31 October when they encountered Carroll and Davies at about 23:00 GMT.
Judge Richardson said Carroll stabbed the victim in his legs, severing a major artery and vein, before fleeing the scene.The judge said while Carroll inflicted the fatal blow Davies had helped trap Mr Takyi-Sarpong and "would have done the same had [he] been nearer to you".He told the defendants: "You both participated in stabbing a man with a view to scaring him off from drug dealing on what you regarded as your patch for peddling illegal drugs on the Balby housing estate.
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