Sentenced to life in prison, the deejay Vybz Kartel is to file a lawsuit against former police commissioner Owen Ellington and the television channel TVJ.
« Vybz Kartel was the leader of a gang responsible for well over 100 murders », Owen Ellington had said on air on 9 April 2014, as a guest on the programme « All Angles » with journalist Dionne Jackson-Miller.
A statement that would amount to defamation, the deejay considering that his reputation has been « seriously damaged », according to the Jamaica Observer. His lawyer Tom Tavares-Finson stressed the harm the commissioner's words (who retired a few days ago) could do to the consideration of the deejay's appeal.