Killer jailed for 11 years for stabbing innocent man in elevator
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Kloud Allen, 24, looked ahead and blinked rapidly he was sentenced in the Victorian Supreme Court on Tuesday for the manslaughter of Andrew Sullivan.

The 24-year-old was with two teenage boys on January 16, 2024, when he attacked Sullivan at a Carlton apartment building in Melbourne’s inner north.

Thomas Graham Towle, 34, being taken from a holding cell at Mildura Police station to stand before a magistrate at Mildura Court, Monday, Feb. 20, 2006. Towle has been accused of driving the car that killed six teenagers at Cardross near Mildura on the weekend. (AAP Image/Glenn Hunt) NO ARCHIVING
Thomas Graham Towle, 34, being taken from a holding cell at Mildura Police station to stand before a magistrate at Mildura Court, Monday, Feb. 20, 2006. (AAP Image/Glenn Hunt)

Sullivan had arrived home on an electric scooter and got into the elevator to go to his apartment, about 11.30pm, with the three young men.

Allen had a tartan scarf around his face and was armed with a kitchen knife, and the group discussed an earlier fight.

Sullivan tried to calm the young men down, but within minutes Allen stabbed him inside the elevator as he tried to fight back and escape.

Allen then fled the scene and escaped interstate to Queensland, where he was arrested and extradited to Melbourne on February 17.

A photograph of victim Andrew Sullivan worn by a supporter outside the Supreme Court of Victoria in Melbourne, Wednesday, April 23, 2025. (AAP)
Dozens of Andrew Sullivan’s family sat in the court room on Wednesday, many of whom had flown from his home of Samoa for the hearing. (Nine)

Supreme Court Justice Stephen Kaye said Allen had killed a complete stranger who was unarmed, outnumbered and defenceless.

“You have taken a life of an entirely innocent person who was quite clearly a decent and much-loved member of his family,” Justice Kaye said in sentencing.

Allen also pleaded guilty to an armed robbery that took place six days before the manslaughter.

He was jailed for 11 years but will be eligible for parole after seven years and four months.

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