Andrea Lowe-Garwood
Leon Hines, the 23-year-old the driver of the getaway car used in the shooting death of 51-year-old National Commercial Bank employee Andrea Lowe-Garwood as she prayed in church on January 31, is to serve six years behind bars.
Hines was sentenced to six years for illegal possession of a firearm and one year for accessory after the fact to murder when he appeared in the Home Circuit Court on Thursday afternoon.
The sentences are to run concurrently.
Hines, who was employed as a storekeeper at the Cornwall Regional Hospital, was held in Kingston hours after Mrs Lowe-Garwoood was shot dead while worshipping at the Agape Christian Fellowship Church, in Falmouth, Trelawny.
She was shot by a man who sat in the pew behind her.
Hines, who is now a crown witness, secured a plea deal with the prosecution last month which resulted in four of the six charges against him being dropped.
He pleaded not guilty to conspiracy to murder, murder, accessory before the fact to murder, and misprision of felon.
Two other men 29-year-old Javan Garwood, who is the stepson of the deceased, and Dwight Bingham have been charged in relation to the killing.
Mr. Garwood is charged with murder and conspiracy to murder while Mr. Bingham has been charged with murder and illegal possession of a firearm.
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