Aye sailorsJamaican dance hall star Adidja Azim Palmer popularly known as Vybz Kartel has been sentenced to life in prison for the murder of a former business associate named Clive "Lizard" Williams.
Jamaica's supreme court
sentenced Kartel today April 3rd after a 58-day trial, said to be the longest
in the history of Jamaica's Circuit court. The musician's 3 other associates,
Shawn Campbell, Kahira Jones and Andre St. John were also sentenced to life in
prison.
The four men are accused
of killing Clive after inviting him to Kartel's home to discuss two missing
illegal hand guns. Though a body has never been found, the key piece of
evidence that nailed Vybz was a text message that he sent from his phone which
claimed 'Clive had been chopped up into so many pieces his body would never be
found."
Kartel will not be
eligible for parole until he serves 35 years of his life sentence. His lawyers
are planning to appeal his sentence. Meanwhile, Vybz has been in prison since
2011 after he was arrested for possession of marijuana, illegal possession of
firearm and the murder of a Jamaican businessman, Barrington Burton. Though he
was later found not guilty and was acquitted of the charge of murder of Burton,
he remained in prison pending his second murder case which started in November
2013.
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