Vybz Kartel’s Murder Conviction Quashed

Jamaican dancehall star, Vybz Kartel’s conviction for the murder of an associate more than a decade ago has been quashed.

Recall that Kartel, Kahira Jones, and Andre St John were convicted in 2014 for killing Clive ‘Lizard’ Williams in 2011, and they were later sentenced to life imprisonment.

However, the Judicial Committee of the UK Privy Council has now erased the murder convictions of the dancehall entertainer and three other men, ruling that the case be sent back to Jamaica’s Court of Appeal for a ruling on whether they should be retried.

The issue of jury misconduct was the sole basis of the Privy Council’s decision to quash the appellants’ convictions in the ruling handed down.

WOW.