The 38 year old reggae superstar was sentenced to life in prison today in a Jamaican courtroom

As TheSource.com reported last month, reggae/dancehall star Vybz Kartel was found guilty of murder. Today, Vybz and three other men were sentenced to life in prison for the murder of Clive “Lizard” Williams in 2011.

Lizard was an associate of Adidja Azim Palmer, who’s also known as Vybz Kartel and four other men who were tried for his murder. One of the men was cleared of all charges in the death of Williams.

AP reports:
While police in riot gear manned barricaded streets outside the court in downtown Kingston, Judge Lennox Campbell ruled that the entertainer must serve 35 years behind bars before he can be eligible for parole. At that point, the tattooed Jamaican DJ who had dominated the brash reggae-rap hybrid of dancehall for a decade would be 73.
The report goes on to say, One of the key pieces of evidence in the 65-day murder trial, one of the longest in Jamaican history, was a text message police said they retrieved from Kartel’s phone saying Williams had been chopped up into “mincemeat” so fine that his remains would never be located.

Kartel’s lawyer Tom Tavares-Finson says he expects to file an appeal.

In 2013, another murder case against the star was dropped after prosecutors were unable to bring forth the evidence to support their claims that he killed Barrington “Bossy” Burton with two other men in 2011.

Vybz will always be a legend in his time, recording classics with artists like Rihanna, Pitbull, Missy Elliot, and many others. Let’s all hope that he receives justice.

-Sha Be Allah(@KingPenStatus)