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Vybz Kartel, Gaza Slim to face music
By PAUL HENRY Crime/Court Desk Coordinator [email protected]
Monday, January 09, 2012

JAILED dancehall entertainers Vybz Kartel and Gaza Slim are scheduled to appear before the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate’s Court today to answer to charges of conspiracy and attempting to pervert the course of justice.
Vybz Kartel, whose real name is Adidja Palmer and Gaza Slim, christened Vanessa Saddler, were remanded into custody when they appeared in court in December.
KARTEL… to appear in the Circuit court on january 13
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The charges stem from allegations that text messages were sent from Vybz Kartel to Gaza Slim’s cellphone instructing her to make a report to the Constant Spring police that she had been robbed by Clive ‘Lizard’ Williams. Williams, is the person whose murder Kartel and his associates — Andre St John, Shawn ‘Shawn Storm’ Campbell, Cairo Jones, Calvin Haye and Shane Williams — are charged for.
The prosecution is contending that the report was made in order to give the impression that Williams was not dead. But in making a failed bail application for Saddler last month, attorney Pierre Rogers said that the masked man who held up Saddler identified himself as Williams.
Williams is alleged to have been murdered on August 16 over the disappearance of an illegal firearm. His body is yet to be found. The prosecution, however, said they have video and other evidence to prove the murder.
The men are to be tried in the Home Circuit Court for the murder. Kartel, Jones, Campbell and Haye have already been transferred to the circuit court, where they will next appear on January 13.
Williams and St John are to appear in the magistrate’s court on January 13 as part of the process to have them join the other accused men in the Home Circuit Court.
On a separate matter, Kartel is to return to the Resident Magistrate’s Court on February 13 when he will be tried on a ganja possession charge.
Kartel and his associates are also facing murder and other charges in relation to the shooting death of Barrington ‘Bossie’ Bryan of Gregory Park, St Catherine in July. He was offered bail to the sum of $3 million in relation to this charge and will next appear in the RM court on today on that charge.

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http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/entertainment/Vybz-Kartel—Gaza-Slim–to-face-music_10505816#ixzz1j0TM18Vd

controversial dancehall DJ Vybz Kartel is to return to court on February 1, after he was remanded in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate’s Court.

His compatriot Gaza Slim was given bail in the Home Circuit Court and must return to court on the same date.

The two are before the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate’s Court, on the charges of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice and attempting to pervert the course of justice.

It is alleged that Kartel, whose real name is Adidja Palmer and Vanessa Saddler, more popularly known as Gaza Slim, were a part of a plot to undermine a police investigation into the murder of Clive ‘Lizard’ Williams.

Kartel is accused of killing Williams.

Saddler had filed a report with the police, claiming that Williams assaulted her during a robbery in Havendale, St. Andrew.

She claimed that the incident occurred on October 29, five days after Kartel was charged with William’s murder.

It is alleged that Saddler and others made up the story to help Kartel with his defence.

Meanwhile, the attorneys for Vybz Kartel have asked Senior Resident Magistrate Pusey to outline her reasons for denying his bail application in writing.

The attorney Christian Tavares-Finson told the Gleaner/Power 106 News Centre that this will be used to decide his client’s next move.

He said one of the options being considered is to make the bail application in the Supreme Court.

Tavares-Finson said this will be discussed with Palmer after RM Pusey complies with their request.