TWO of the three persons charged with the 2005 murder of gas station operator L G Brown and his fiancée, Sandra Campbell, in Stony Hill, St Andrew, were last evening found guilty by a panel of 12 jurors in the Home Circuit Court.

The convicts – Donald Whyte and Peter Dugal – are scheduled to be sentenced on October 1.

The jury, after deliberating for more than three hours, was unable to reach a verdict concerning Brown’s helper, Sandra Watt, who is the third person charged with the June 5, 2005 double murder.

Watt is scheduled to appear in court on September 17, where her case is to be mentioned.

All three professed their innocence during the trial.

Yesterday, the late gas station operator’s daughter, Keena Brown, told the Observer following the verdicts that the family felt some sense of closure, but said there was more to the killings than meets the eye.

“We feel a partial sense of closure, but we know that there is more to this,” she said. “. My father was a good man and he deserves justice, and Mrs Campbell was a great lady.”

The police had theorised that the killers were paid to carry out the killings, but this could not be substantiated.

Brown, the former head of the Jamaica Gasolene Retailers Association and owner of the Esso gas station at the corner of Constant Spring Road and Dunrobin Avenue in Kingston, and his companion Campbell, were shot at Campbell’s Stilwell Road home in Stony Hill, St Andrew around 4:00 am on June 5, 2005. Brown’s licensed firearm was stolen by

his killers.

Dugal, 36, was arrested a few hours later after he was shot and injured in an alleged shootout with the police in Vineyard Town, Kingston. A gun taken from Dugal by the police at the time was, during the trial, identified as the murder weapon by a ballistic expert.

A driver’s licence casing and a gold credit card with Brown’s name was found on Dugal after his arrest. In addition, Brown’s 9mm pistol was allegedly found at a home where Dugal was staying.

Dugal’s arrest led to that of Watt and Whyte who was held last year.

The crown contended that Watt, who had a key to Campbell’s home, allowed Dugal entry to the home.

However, a witness testified during the three-week in-camera trial that Dugal confessed to him on the morning of the killings that he had shot Brown and Campbell after gaining entrance to the house by climbing through the bedroom window.