Men guilty of ‘Good Samaritan’ killing after retrial

Reece Radford was fatally stabbed after intervening when he saw a 17-year-old girl being assaulted in Sheffield in September 2022. Following a retrial at Leeds Crown Court, Louis James was convicted of murder and Dereck Owusu of manslaughter, after their original murder convictions were appealed.

The court heard that Radford confronted Owusu after seeing him punch the girl, then Owusu and James attacked Radford, with James stabbing him. Radford, 26, died in hospital six days later; both men are due to be re-sentenced on 30 October, and police acknowledged the strain a second trial placed on his family and friends.