Omar Collymore, who was convicted of orchestrating the contract killing of his spouse and her taxi driver six years in the past, was sentenced this morning to life in jail.
The 48-year-old American businessman, who was sentenced to 2 life sentences for every homicide, must serve 46 years and 6 months earlier than being thought-about for parole. Each life sentences will likely be served concurrently.
The hitman, Michael Adams, was additionally sentenced to 2 life phrases for the double homicide and will likely be eligible for parole after serving 42 years and 6 months in jail.
A 3rd convict, Dwayne Pink, was additionally sentenced to 2 life phrases for the double homicide and should serve 32 years and 6 months earlier than being thought-about for parole.
Shaquilla Edwards, who had backed out of the homicide plot earlier than the victims have been killed and was solely convicted of conspiracy to homicide, was sentenced to at least one yr.
Every of the convicts had six and a half years decreased from their sentence for the time they spent in pretrial detention.
Collymore and Pink have been additionally sentenced to at least one yr and 6 months for conspiracy to homicide, whereas Adams was sentenced to 2 years and 6 months.
All sentences should be executed concurrently.
The sentences have been handed down by Decide Leighton Pusey on the Native Circuit Courtroom.
Simone Campbell-Collymore and Winston Walters have been killed when males on motorbikes approached and shot them as they waited to be let into the girl's Forest Ridge condo advanced in Pink Hills, St Andrew, on January 2, 2018.
The 32-year-old mom of two was shot 19 occasions, whereas the 36-year-old taxi driver was shot 5 occasions.
Collymore, 41, an American businessman; hitman Michael Adams, 33, a tailor and salesman; and Pink, 34, a building employee, have been discovered responsible of the murders of each victims, in addition to conspiracy to homicide, on Could 15 after a four-month trial.
-Tanesha Mundle
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