Vybz Kartel Set Free Ahead Of Emancipation Day
Caribbean and World Newsby Toter 5 months ago 44 Views 0 comments
One of Jamaica’s most enigmatic figures in Dancehall music has been set free after having been sentenced to life in prison in 2014.
Vybz Kartel and co-defendants Shawn’ Shawn Storm’ Campbell, Andre St John, and Kahira Jones were arrested in 2011 and charged with the murder of Clive Lizard Williams.
Their trial lasted sixty-four days and is being described as one of the longest in Jamaica’s history.
Since their sentencing in 2014, the men’s lawyers have sought a retrial, eventually taking their case to the Privy Council.
On March 14, 2024, the Privy Council in London, Jamaica’s final court of appeal, granted the lawyers for the defendants a hearing.
The court overturned the convictions of Kartel and the co-accused and ruled that the Court of Appeal of Jamaica should decide whether they should be ordered to stand a retrial.
The lawyers for the defendants had argued that their clients had not received a fair trial due to jury misconduct.
On Wednesday, July 31, 2024, the Court of Appeal of Jamaica heard submissions by the prosecution and the defendant and ruled in favour of the defendants.
Justice Marva McDonald Bishop, the president of the Court of Appeal, disclosed the considerations in...
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