The man accused of the 2007 murder of the bodyguard of former Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller, has been found guilty.
Veron Irvin was convicted Friday afternoon by a seven member jury before the Home Circuit Court.
He is to be sentenced on January 25.
Irvin was placed on trial for the murder of Sergeant Edgerton Brown who was shot during a robbery on Sundown Crescent in St. Andrew on September 6, 2007.
He was killed during a struggle with gunmen who demanded his vehicle.
During the struggle he bit one of the men in the head.
Prosecutors used DNA results to prove the case.
Hair follicles and flesh from the gunman were found in the mouth of the deceased cop.
Bloodstains from the injured gunman were also found in the policeman’s vehicle which was recovered.
Irvin had agreed to give his DNA sample to investigators.
DNA way to go when there are no witnesses or witnesses scared to come to court