Adbul, 22, was found critically injured in a car that had crashed in Elm Grove, Brighton, at 9.30pm on Saturday, February 16, 2019. He had been stabbed eight times by 37-year-old Daniel Macleod of Gypsy Road, Lambeth, London, in an attack in Hanover Court that was witnessed by his friend.
He was taken by ambulance to the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton, but sadly died from his injuries at 6am the following morning.
On Friday (November 13), Macleod was jailed for a minimum of 19 years for the murder and 85 months after pleading guilty to conspiring to supply drugs of class A and class B. The sentences will run concurrently.
A second defendant, Stephen Burns, 56, (below left) of Lennox Street, Brighton, who was on trial for assisting an offender, was found not guilty of the offence. However, he did plead guilty to conspiring to supply drugs of class A and class B and jailed for 34 months.
