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Vybz Kartel wins appeal of murder conviction and life sentence

sentenced to life in prison 10 years ago, after being convicted of the 2011 murder of Clive “Lizard” Williams.Now, according to a new report from Reuters, the musician has won an appeal of his conviction due to juror misconduct that took place during his original trial. The appeals court in Jamaica will now decide whether Kartel and his co-defendants will stand trial once again.The initial trial took place a decade ago, and became one of the longest in the country’s history after it ran for 64 days.During this time, one of the jurors allegedly tried to bribe others on the panel to put forward a not-guilty verdict.
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Stefflon Don and Jada Kingdom exchange diss tracks, allegedly over Burna Boy
Stefflon Don and Jada Kingdom have traded shots at one another with new diss tracks, and it’s allegedly because of Burna Boy.At the end of 2023, it became fashionable for dancehall artists to perform (or deejay) over the iconic ‘Dutty Money Riddim’ – an instrumental that was popular in 2010 due to massive hits ‘Go Go Club’ by Vybz Kartel and ‘Bike Back’ by Blak Ryno.On Sunday (January 7), Don teased her contribution to the Riddim on Instagram. In a video, you can hear the British-based star slate an unnamed woman for her promiscuous ways: “Never fuck a man to go land pon a jet / You never fuck my man, dutty gyal, we did lef’.”Fans took to social media to share theories that Don was referring Kingdom, following last year’s rumours that the ‘Heavy’ singer and Don’s ex-boyfriend Burna Boy had been in a secret relationship.The Afrobeats juggernaut even namechecked Kingdom in his verse for the remix of Byron Messia’s song ‘Taliban’: “All the best pum pum deh yah Kingston / So me buy a Birkin fi Jada Kingdom.”Kingdom called out Don on Instagram, saying that “it’s weird” that the latter wanted to start the feud over a man who “is for everybody.”Don decided to rework her initial song – now called ‘Dat A Dat’ – and deliberately called out “Twinkie,” which was a play on Kingdom’s nickname Twinkle.
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