THREE men were on Tuesday convicted in the Home Circuit Court for the 2007 murder of Assistant Commissioner of Police Gilbert Kameka.

A panel of 12 jurors deliberated for close to four hours before returning the guilty verdicts to conclude the seven-week trial which heard evidence from some 30 witnesses.

Convicts Massinissa Adams, 28, Kemar Dawkins, 20 and 23-year-old Rohan Townsend will return to court on Friday when a date for sentencing will be set.

The three were found guilty of the November 29, 2007 shooting death of Kameka, 48, the highest-ranked member of the constabulary to be murdered in Jamaica.

Kameka was shot dead at premises in Irish Town, St Andrew, where he had gone to spend time with Tina-Gaye McGowan, who was 18 yearsold at the time.

Gaye, who was implicated in the murder, was later given a three-year suspended sentence for orchestrating the senior cop’s robbery, in return for her testifying against the men.

Gaye gave evidence during the trial that Adams was her intimate friend and that she informed him that she was seeing a businessman who had a gun.

According to Gaye’s evidence, Adams said that he wanted the gun and a robbery plan was hatched. Gaye testified that she did not know that Kameka was a police officer.

Gaye testified that Kameka was shot by Adams.

At least one of the attorneys representing the men, Earle Delisser, said that he would be filing an appeal after sentencing, as the evidence against his client, Townsend, was “flimsy”.

– Paul Henry