KINGSTON, Jamaica —  Following Thursday morning’s decision by the Privy Council to quash the murder conviction of dancehall deejay Vybz Kartel and his three co-accused, attorneys for Shawn ‘Shawn Storm’ Campbell, says its back to the drawing board as they prepare themselves for Jamaica’s Court of Appeal to come to a decision on a retrial.

In an interview with the media post-ruling, Bert and Bianca Samuels said that while they are grateful for the UK High Court’s judgement, they will hold back on their level of celebration at this time.

“It’s not what we wanted wholesomely but we are grateful that justice was served in that the Privy Council found that there was injustice in respect of the jury tampering issue and we are happy that that was the result of the Court of Appeal but we have a challenge ahead of us in respect of the retrial issue and that’s why you are not seeing me jumping up and down at this time though we are grateful that the conviction was quashed,” said Bianca Samuels while Bert highlighted their next series of moves.

“So we are now into another trial that is before the Court of Appeal and therefore we will be raising all the points, going back to the drawing board to make sure that justice is done in that court because what we have gone through, and that would be the worst case scenario, trial court of appeal, privy council, back to the court of appeal and then the court of appeal orders a retrial that doesn’t seem to me like justice being delivered to the appellants in this matter,” he said.

The Privy Council ruled that on the grounds of jury tampering, the convictions of Kartel and his co-accused should be thrown out and a retrial decision be made by the Court of Appeal in Jamaica,

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In their statement to the media, Campbell’s lawyers shared that the local court must now decide whether it is fair that after more than a decade behind bars, the no-longer convicted men should go through another lengthy trial.

“The reasons for quashing the case in the Privy Council we argued the very same before the Court of Appeal of Jamaica who turned us away and therefore the final Court of Appeal has vindicated and made the efforts that we have made that we had an arguable case. We were alarmed when the Jamaican Court of Appeal did not take that jury point and it took another court to say there was a breach of the constitutional rights of Shawn Campbell,” Bert Samuels said. “Now when we go to the Court of Appeal with this matter, the Court of Appeal has to decide whether it is fair after 10 years in prison, rather 12 years in prison, we have to get lawyers again before the case, with all publicity that has been made about voicenotes and all that has been circulated in the Jamaican population, whether we can find seven jurors— because it has been reduced since then— to hear this matter and come to a verdict. We will be fighting in the Court of Appeal to tell that court in all of the circumstances, it will not be in the interest of justice for Shawn Campbell to be placed on a retrial.”