Overview
- A judge sentenced 22‑year‑old Chas Corrigan to life with a minimum term of 22 years and six months after he was convicted of murdering 20‑year‑old Mohammed Yousef Algasim in early June 2026.
- Prosecutors said Corrigan, who had been drinking and using cocaine, left a pub carrying a kitchen knife, returned to a group of students in Mill Park and stabbed Algasim in the neck; the single wound severed major neck arteries and caused rapid, fatal blood loss.
- The Crown relied on extensive CCTV footage, multiple eyewitness accounts, and pathology findings shown at trial to rebut Corrigan’s claim that he acted in self‑defence.
- Corrigan’s father, Peter Corrigan, pleaded guilty to assisting an offender after removing and hiding his son’s blood‑stained high‑visibility jacket; he was sentenced to two years in prison.
- Algasim’s family read victim impact statements in court describing deep grief and the loss of his future as an engineering student and the sentencing marked the latest legal resolution with no appeal outcome reported so far.