Jamaican 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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