‘Revengeful’ Albanian who stabbed 21-year-old man to death for accidentally knocking into him is jailed
Agustin Sula, 18, who murdered Mateusz Szleper will spend at least 18 years in prison.
AN ALBANIAN teenager who knifed a young dad in the heart after he accidentally knocked into him has been jailed for life.
Asylum seeker, Agustin Sula, 18, plunged a 20cm-long combat knife with knuckle-duster handle into the chest of 21-year-old Mateusz Szleper during an attack in Hull, East Yorks.
Sula, of Harthill Drive, Hull, was given a life sentence today at Hull Crown Court after being found guilty of murder in September.
He will have to wait 18 years until he is considered for release.
Speaking at the sentencing, Judge Jeremy Richardson QC said: "Immaturity is understood by everyone but it was not your immaturity that governed your conduct that night after the initial incident, it was an innate aspect of your character - a desire for revengeful violence.
"Many young men are immature but they do not act violently and with the level of determined violence you exhibited.
"In my judgement, you are a man - albeit a young man - possessed of a violent character and personality. You are also impetuous and volatile.
"Given what you did, and the fact you repeatedly carried a knife, you are, thus, a dangerous individual.
"I have no means of being able to gauge at this stage when, or if, it will ever be safe to release you."
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An warrant for Sula's arrest was issued by the international police organisation, Interpol, and he failed to serve his six month prison sentence in his home country for theft by collaboration in 2014.
However he went on the run in the UK and was granted leave to stay with police only finding out about the warrant after the killing.
The court heard how jobless Sula was carrying a knife and looking for a fight when Mr Szleper bumped into him as he left the William Hill's betting office in Spring Bank in Hull at about 6pm on February 14.
Sula managed to to get four pals to go in search of the victim and an eyewitness described the group during the trial as 'behaving like a pack of wild animals' surrounding the victim on waste ground and hitting him with a piece of wood and stabbing him.
Judge Richardson added: "A knife in the hands of an idle young man in public, who has a tendency to get involved in flights, particularly one who is volatile - as you were - provides the map and compass for a route to disaster. That is what happened here."
He added that Sula had 'not exhibited a shred of remorse' for his actions and had 'no lawful purpose' to be carrying a knife.
Sula's brother, Ermal Sula, of Gee Street, Hull, who was with his brother when the murder was carried out was convicted of assisting an offender
The 24-year-old was sentenced to four years in prison.
During the ten-day trial, the jury heard a victim impact statement from Mr Szleper's girlfriend, Ann maria Kazimeirska.
She said: "His son is three and is going to grow up without know his father and know what a loving caring father he was.
"Mateusz used to spend a lot of time with Cajeton.
"Cajeton often asks about his father.
"We have a memory photograph of Mateusz.
"Cajeton takes hold of this picture every day and says: 'There is daddy. He is in heaven'.
"Mateusz had a passion for music and he would like to have passed it on to his son.
"But that will now not be the case.
"My whole life has changed without Mateusz.
"We would share all our personal and life experiences with each other.
"Life is not the same and will never be the same."