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Keith Bishop and Jonoy Pinnock, attorneys for Lamar Simpson
By Racquel Porter
Six of the 15 people convicted in the One Don Gang trial were sentenced in the Home Circuit Court today.
The sentences were handed down by Chief Justice Bryan Sykes.
Among those sentenced was convicted gang leader Andre 'Blackman' Bryan, who was ordered to serve 39 and a half years in prison.
The 38-year-old musician was given 21 years and six months for leadership of a criminal organisation.
Bryan was also sentenced to 11 and half years each for facilitating the commission of murder and arson in relation to the shooting death of a couple in Fisheries, St. Catherine.
Blackman was similarly slapped with 10 years for facilitating the conspiracy of murder and 12 years for facilitating the commission of murder by a criminal organisation in connection with the shooting death of a man called 'Outlaw'.
He was also sentenced to six and half years for facilitating the gang's commission of murder in relation to the killing of 'Doolie' on Chancery Street in St. Andrew.
In addition, Bryan was slapped with another six and a half-year sentence for facilitating the gang's murder of a Rastafarian man, and four and a half years for facilitating the murder of an unknown person.
Some of the sentences will run concurrently while others will run consecutively, for a total of 39 and a half years in prison.
Meanwhile, Bryan's co-convict, Michael Whitely, will serve 16 years in prison.
The 25-year-old was sentenced to seven and a half years for being part of a criminal organisation and eight and a half years for facilitating the murder of a Rastaman on January 14, 2018, in Jones Avenue.
Both sentences are to run consecutively.
Another convicted member, Brian Morris, who the state witness said was the actual shooter of the Rastaman, is to serve a total 18 years and six months behind bars.
He was handed consecutive sentences of eight years and nine months for being a member of a gang, and nine years and nine months for facilitating the murder.
Earlier in Monday's proceedings, Tomrick Taylor was sentenced to nine and a half years in prison for being part of a criminal organisation.
Dylon McLean, who was among a group of gangsters armed with Molotov cocktails before the killing of the couple and torching of their house at Fisheries, St. Catherine is to serve seven years and three months for his crimes.
He was convicted of being part of a criminal organisation and two counts of facilitating the commission of a serious offence by a criminal organisation.
Lamar Simpson was sentenced to one year and six months for being a member of a criminal organisation.
Simpson's attorneys, Keith Bishop and Jonoy Pinnock, said they are "very happy" with the outcome and believe the court made the right decision as it relates to their client.
Chief Justice Bryan Sykes is to complete the sentencing of convicted pastor Stephanie Cole Christie on Tuesday.
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