MASSINISSA Adams, the ‘mastermind’ behind the 2007 robbery and murder of Assistant Commissioner of Police Gilbert Kameka, was yesterday sentenced to hang, while his two cohorts received life sentences.

“In relation to Mr Adams, the sentence of the court is that he suffers death in the manner authorised by law,” said Justice Marva McIntosh in handing down sentence in the Home Circuit Court.

Adams’ fellow convicts – Kemar Dawkins, 20, and 26-year-old Rohan Townsend – were ordered to serve 30 years and 20 years, respectively, of their life sentences before they are eligible for parole.

Adams, 27 – the father of three children – along with Dawkins and Townsend, who are also fathers, were convicted on September 15 for the November 29, 2007 shooting death of the assistant police commissioner.

Kameka, 48, was the highest-ranked member of the constabulary to be murdered in Jamaica. He was shot dead at a house in Irish Town, St Andrew, where he had gone to visit his then 18-year-old friend Tina-Gaye McGowan.

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

Justice McIntosh yesterday bemoaned the fact that Kameka was given no chance at escape before being shot dead by Adams.