Ex-cop Ricketo Graham has been sentenced to life imprisonment for the July 2013 murder of Christopher Hill in St. Ann.
The ruling was handed down yesterday by Justice Glen Brown in the Home Circuit Court.
Graham will serve 35 years before being eligible for parole.
Justice Brown commented that Hill’s murder was a cold-blooded and callous killing; and this should be a warning to other officers that unless they discharge their firearms in self defence they face a custodial sentence.
Graham was found guilty last month by a seven member jury.
Evidence presented in court during the trial was that Hill was accosted by the police, taken to the Brown’s Town Police Station, processed and subsequently taken to Wesley Crescent where he was shot.
He succumbed to his injuries at the St. Ann’s Bay Hospital days later.
INDECOM arrested and charged Constable Graham on July 19, 2013, with attempting to pervert the course of justice and murder.
Excellent outcome! Other criminals masquerading as p.o’s better Tek heed.
The U.S could learn something from this ruling, and stop allowing police to feel untouchable and continue to get away with murdering civilians.
Good. More cops need to be charged and convicted now.
Jacobs and that whore next for killing that young man.
This is excellent news. Some Jamaican police are way too aggressive and think their uniform gives them a right to murder indiscriminately. Make an example of them and send a strong message out there that their job is to uphold law like everyone else.
Di law need fi get organized an fix up yea, but mi naaa glad up cause more time a jamg dung police do need fi kill off some a dem half an half fi me yasso yea.