Killer of Saudi Student in UK sentencned 22.6 years imprisonment

A murderer of The United Kingdom of Saudi Arabian Student in the UK has been sentenced for 22 years and six months, after being found guilty at an earlier trial on Thursday. Mr Justice Dias announced this verdict at Cambridge Crown Court of Holbrook Road in the city. The murderer is identified Chas Corrigan, a White Britsh construction worker, from CCTV footage, later on investigation and trail.

During the Verdict announcement, Mr Justice Dias has described the murder of a Saudi Arabian student in a Cambridge street as "senseless" and "fuelled by alcohol and cocaine and anger". He announced the verdict for Chas (22) stabbed 20-year-old Mohammed Algasim in the neck outside student accommodation in August 2025.

Mr Justice Dias said that Chas had taken a "lethal combination" which led to the killing. He added that Algasim "was an entirely innocent member of the public" and Corrigan had "robbed him" and his family of the "promising life ahead of him".

Jurors had heard how Algasim had been studying at a language school and was sitting with friends near Cambridge Railway Station.

Prosecutors said Corrigan, who had drunk beer, gin and several vodka drinks and taken cocaine, attacked Algasim with a kitchen knife, which he claimed he was carrying for protection. The killing was captured on CCTV. CCTV footage shows Chas Corrigan talking to Mohammed Algasim before walking away and then returning

At sentencing, Mr Justice Dias said the construction worker posed "a high risk of serious harm to the public".

Speaking about the killer`s remorse, the judge said: "I find that the remorse he purports to express and the responsibility he says he accepts in fact ring hollow in light of his continuing falsehoods about his conduct, and failure to accept the facts that any reasonable and rational person can see from the video footage of the murder.

"Ultimately, it is not remorse if he does not accept what has been proved beyond reasonable doubt.

"Perhaps no-one will ever understand why you did what you have done.

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"It was literally senseless. It made no sense."

Corrigan`s father, Peter Corrigan, 50, was also jailed for two years after pleading guilty to assisting an offender, after concealing high-visibility clothing that his son had been wearing at the time of the attack.

The Saudi student had never met the accused before the attack, the court heard

On the first day of the two-day sentencing, Algasim`s father, Yousef Al Qasim, told Mr Justice Dias: "Instead of witnessing his achievements, I was confronted with the unbearable reality of receiving his lifeless body.

"The pain of sending a son abroad to study, full of hope for his future, only for him to return as a victim of senseless violence, despite having caused no problem to anyone, is beyond what words can express."

Mr Justice Dias said Algasim`s father "suffers from life-changing grief and psychological trauma", adding that his death has had "severe and ongoing impact across the family".

"The grief of living without her son in the home has been catastrophic to his mother," the judge added.