Vybz Kartel has been dancehall music’s most popular and hated personality for much of the last decade, inspiring equal levels of adulation and revulsion in Jamaica with his provocative lyrics and controversial antics. A shameless self-promoter who once launched his own condom line, he’s also an astute social critic with a book in the Princeton University library.
And, as of March 13, he's also a convicted murderer. Following a 65-day trial said to be the longest in Jamaica’s history, Kartel, whose real name is Adidjah Palmer, was sentenced Thursday to life in prison along with three co-defendants in the August 2011 killing of Clive "Lizard" Williams, an associate killed over missing guns.
In handing down the sentences to Kartel, Shawn Campbell, Kahira Jones and Andre St. John, Judge Lennox Campbell said he took into consideration that "there was a great deal of premeditation" in Williams' death, as well as the concealment of the body and attempts to destroy evidence of the crime. Williams’ body has never been found.
No comments:
Post a Comment