KINGSTON, Jamaica — Reggae star Jah Remedy will know his destiny when he heads to the Netherlands Courtroom of Appeals for a substantive listening to on June 18 to find out whether or not Dutch prosecutors can pursue an tried homicide cost towards him.
Over the previous few months, a Netherlands investigative decide had been listening to witnesses as Dutch prosecutors pressed their attraction towards the acquittal of the Unconditional Love singer’s tried homicide cost within the preliminary trial. Jah Remedy’s lawyer has additionally appealed the tried manslaughter conviction.
The substantive listening to has been scheduled for June, 18 2025, from 2:00 pm to 4:30 pm.
“On the substantive listening to, the case can be introduced to the Courtroom of Appeals and they’ll resolve,” a consultant of the Netherlands Prosecution Service, mentioned.
Solely hearings the place there may be utility of judicial thoughts to the decision of the dispute, are categorized as “substantive”, in different phrases, a listening to at which the end result of a matter is anticipated to be determined.
Jah Remedy, whose actual identify is Siccature Alcock, has been in pre-trial detention in Amsterdam whereas awaiting the dealing with of the prosecutors’ attraction of his 2022 conviction. Alcock was convicted to a six-year sentence in March 2022 for tried manslaughter, however he was acquitted of the tried homicide cost. Remedy was convicted after he stabbed a Dutch live performance promoter often called Nicardo ‘Papa’ Blake over unpaid efficiency charges in October 2021.
The trial judges had dominated that Jah Remedy’s actions weren’t a premeditated act of tried homicide, and he was acquitted of the extra critical cost.
— Claude Mills
