BY KARYL WALKER Editor — Crime/Court Desk walkerk@jamaicaobserver.com Friday, March 28, 2014
VYBZ Kartel will only be allowed to record music in prison if the Department of Correctional Services deems him fit to be
part of a rehabilitation programme, depending on his conduct, a former prison official told the Jamaica Observer yesterday.
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, was responding to questions posed by the Observer after Justice Lennox Campbell postponed to April 3 the sentencing of the deejay and his three co-accused — Shawn 'Shawn Storm' Campbell, Kahira Jones and Andre St John — who were found guilty of the murder of Clive 'Lizard' Williams on March 20.
Justice Campbell postponed the sentencing after defence lawyers informed him that they had not received a letter he instructed the Supreme Court to draft and send to the prosecution and the defence.
Director of Public Prosecutions Paula Llewellyn admitted receiving the correspondence.
Justice Campbell told the court that he wanted the assistance of both sides on sentencing guidelines.
He said the degree of participation of each convicted man in the murder would be important in his decision on how long they would be locked away in a penal facility.
"Sentences are not just clutched out of the air," Justice Campbell said. The judge said Llewellyn had made her recommendations and had pointed to sentences handed down in similar circumstances.
He referred to the case of singer Jah Cure (real name Sycatore Alcock), who recorded three albums while incarcerated at the Tower Street Adult Correctional Centre, and wondered if, in the event that Vybz Kartel recorded music while he served his sentence, any proceeds made from those songs should go to Williams' estate. more
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