[Contributor : Shamari]

Jailed dancehall artiste Vybz Kartel is worried that he will not get a fair trial for the range of offences including murder with which he has been charged. Kartel, whose real name is Adidja Palmer, said this is because of how the police have been treating the matters relating to him. In a letter to his friend, university professor Dr. Carolyn Cooper, Kartel said he is being painted as an evil DJ by day, don by night and a murderer, who is society’s number one cause for crime and violence.


excerpts from the letter :

 “Dear Ms. Cooper,

Good day to you and i hope you are in the best of health and the highest of spirits, but I am not.

“Ms Cooper as you know i am in jail on numerous charges and i’d like to tell you that i am an innocent man who needs your help because i’m being painted as this evil ‘D.J. by day, don by night’ murderer who is society’s number one cause of crime and violence. The police is using the media to slaughter me and as such i don’t think i will get a fair trial. They are using the media to form public opinion of me that is so contradictory to the person that I really am. They (police) have tried my case in the public & found me guilty.

“Every single piece of alleged evidence, every new development in the case is thrown on t.v. as if this is a soap opera, but i can assure you that this is no movie to me. This is about my life and my freedom and i take them very seriously.

“My charges are merely allegations, but they are giving the public the impression that i am guilty and that is not fair to me or my family.

“I have been to court on numerous occasions and saw hundreds of accused men who are charged with heinous crimes like murdering children, killing police officers, burning & shooting whole families and i have never once saw police on t.v. discussing the development of those cases, much less every week, as in my case.”

He also said the police have been using the media to slaughter him and to form a public opinion of him contradicts his real image. In the letter published in Professor Cooper’s Sunday Gleaner column, Kartel said the cops have tried his case in the public and found him guilty. He complained that every single piece of alleged evidence and every new development in his case is broadcast on TV, as though the matter is a soap opera. According to Kartel, he has been in court numerous times and he does not see where the cases of people accused of heinous crimes have been treated in the public sphere.
Source: Thegreatestnews.com

[Contributor : Shamari]

Dancehall artiste Vybz Kartel has been slapped with another murder charge. Detectives from the Constant Spring Criminal Investigation Branch have charged Kartel, whose given name is Adidjah Palmer, and Kiro Jones otherwise called ‘Ray Jones’ for the murder of Clive Williams otherwise called ‘Lizard’. Mr. Williams was murdered in Havendale, St. Andrew on August 16.

Vybz Kartel and Mr. Jones were charged Monday evening, October 24.
Arrangements are being made to have them brought before the courts.
Kartel is already facing murder charges. He and Nigel Thompson and Linberg McDonald are charged with the July murder of Barrington Burton in Gregory Park, St Catherine. Kartel is scheduled to return to the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday, October 26 to answer to those murder charges. The deejay was remanded at his previous court hearing after his lawyers deferred his bail application due to the absence of a witness statement. Kartel was arrested on September 30 in New Kingston and charged with the possession of 4.3 ounces of marijuana ,He along with three other persons were taken into custody. The deejay was slapped with more serious charges of murder, conspiracy to murder, and illegal possession of a firearm just days later.

Source: RJR News Online