After eleven years of imprisonment, Jamaican entertainer, Vybz Kartel, has been released from prison to the streets of Kingston, Jamaica.
In a viral social media video, the singer released earlier today, Thursday, August 1, 2024, from the Tower Street Adult Correctional Center was welcomed by hundreds of fans who cheered for his release while joining his family in a convoy home.
Vybz Kartel and three others were convicted on March 14, 2014, for the murder of Clive “Lizard” Williams.
According to a report by RollingStone, prosecutors argued that Williams was killed over missing guns and that Kartel had lured Williams to his home before Williams was beaten to death.
Although Vybz Kartel and his three associates were convicted, a United Kingdom-based Privy Council overturned the conviction against the singer who was found guilty in the murder of Clive “Lizard” Williams.
The privy council found evidence of juror misconduct in Kartel’s initial trial and left the case to a three-person court of appeals in Jamaica to ultimately decide whether to retry the murder case against Kartel and his co-defendants or let them all free.
On Wednesday, the Court of Appeal opted for the latter, writing in the decision, “The interests of justice do not require a new trial to be ordered,” the Jamaica Observer reports.
Watch the video here:
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