Overview
- Leeds Crown Court sentenced Michael Mulvana, 32, and Jobie Tyers, 28, to life imprisonment with a 29-year minimum term counted from their first remand on November 28, 2024, after a jury convicted them earlier this week.
- Evidence showed the pair watched the address beforehand, then entered hooded and masked with a crowbar and attacked three occupants.
- Indrit Mustafaj, 26, was repeatedly stabbed and slashed as he cowered, and the attackers fled within minutes with his coat holding drugs and thousands of pounds in cash.
- The court heard they later disposed of bloodstained banknotes and destroyed other incriminating items.
- A family statement said Mustafaj, an Albanian migrant, had worked in the UK to support relatives and planned a surprise return home, as police warned that carrying knives for protection can end up arming attackers.