Leeds Crown Court sentenced Louis James to life and Dereck Owusu to 14 years for killing Reece Radford.

Friday's terms are the sentences after the retrial. James was again convicted of murder. Owusu's count changed from murder to manslaughter, and 14 years is not a life sentence. Yorkshire Live said the retrial verdicts came earlier this week and did not print the date. The BBC reported the sentences on Friday and did not date the verdicts.

The BBC reported Friday, Oct. 30, 2026, in a story by Alex Moss, that Leeds Crown Court sentenced Louis James, 50, to life with a minimum term of 23 years, and Dereck Owusu, 43, to 14 years. The BBC said James was convicted of murder and Owusu of manslaughter after a retrial. Yorkshire Live reported the same day, in a story by Sophie Corcoran timestamped 14:21, that the sentences were imposed Friday, Oct. 30, at Leeds Crown Court, that James's previous sentence was life with a minimum of 25 years, and that Owusu's previous sentence was life with a minimum of 15 years. Twenty-three years and 25 years are the two minima those accounts give for James. Fourteen years, the new term for Owusu, is not a life sentence. Fifteen years was the minimum on the life sentence Yorkshire Live said he received the first time. The BBC said both men were originally jailed for life in 2023 after being convicted of Radford's murder. Yorkshire Live reported they were found guilty of murder at Sheffield Crown Court in April 2023. The BBC did not print Sheffield Crown Court or the April date.

Yorkshire Live reported a retrial was ordered because an appeal against the original convictions was upheld by the Court of Appeal. The BBC reported they appealed and that a retrial was held, and did not name the Court of Appeal. Yorkshire Live reported that earlier this week a jury at Leeds Crown Court upheld James's murder conviction and found Owusu guilty of manslaughter rather than murder. The BBC reported those were the retrial results and did not say which day the jury returned them. Earlier this week, in Friday's Yorkshire Live story, is that paper's timing. It is not a date.

The BBC reported Reece Radford, 26, was fatally stabbed after he intervened in an altercation in Arundel Gate, Sheffield, in 2022. The BBC said that, at the original trial, the court heard he confronted the two men after he saw Owusu punch a 17-year-old girl in the face in Arundel Gate in the early hours of Sept. 29, 2022. She is not named in this story. The BBC said Radford had met her briefly earlier that night, that he saw Owusu strike her with such force that she fell, and that he punched Owusu in the face. The BBC quoted prosecutor David Temkin KC: "He did so in order to protect a young female who he had just seen being punched." The BBC said Owusu, previously of Strathmore Grove, Rotherham, and James, previously of Manor Lane, Sheffield, then attacked Radford, and that James stabbed him. The BBC said Radford died in hospital six days later from a stab wound. Yorkshire Live reported the same date, the same street, the same sequence of a punch, an intervention, a stabbing by James, and death in hospital six days later. Yorkshire Live did not print the ages, the previous addresses, or Temkin's name.

The BBC quoted Detective Inspector Adam Watkinson of South Yorkshire Police after the sentencing. He said he was glad Radford's family finally have closure and that the pair "have once more been returned to jail where they belong." The BBC quoted him saying Radford "acted as a Good Samaritan, going out of his way to defend a young person who he did not know," and that Radford should not have had to pay for that with his life. Yorkshire Live reported that, at the earlier sentencing, Radford's mother, Ms Radford, said in a statement, "I am so proud to say he was my son. It was not just my son that was killed that night - my family was killed." The BBC did not print that statement. Friday's terms are the sentences on the retrial verdicts. James's minimum is 23 years. Owusu's term is 14 years.