Collymore, accomplices to face trial for gun attack on ex-lover
Published:Thursday | July 25, 2024 | 12:11 AMTanesha Mundle/Staff Reporter
Convicted killer Omar Collymore and his three accomplices in the contract-style killing of his wife are set to face another trial in relation to an alleged gun attack reportedly orchestrated by Collymore on his ex-lover.
A date for the trial of the men, including the alleged contract killer, Carey Jonas, is expected to be set on Friday in the Home Circuit Court following the sentencing of the other four men.
Collymore, 41, a United States businessman; Michael Adams, 33, a tailor and salesman; Dwayne Pink, 34, a construction worker; and marketer Shaquilla Edwards, were scheduled to be sentenced yesterday, but the matter was postponed to Friday to facilitate the taking of evidence in relation to Pink’s medical report.
A medical officer from the University Hospital of the West Indies, where Pink was a patient, will answer questions about Pink’s medical in an in-camera hearing before the sentence is passed.
Simone Campbell-Collymore and Winston Walters were killed when men rode up on motorbikes and sprayed them with bullets as they waited to be let inside the woman’s Forest Ridge apartment complex in Red Hills, St Andrew, on January 2, 2018.
The 32-year-old mother of two was shot 19 times, while the taxi driver, 36, was shot five times.
Collymore, Pink, and Adams were found guilty of the murders of both victims as well as conspiracy to murder on May 15, following a four-month-long trial.
Edwards was, however, only convicted of murder conspiracy.
Acting Senior Director of Public Prosecutions Andrea Martin Swaby has asked that Collymore, Adams and Pink be sentenced to life in prison, serving upwards of 41 years before being eligible for parole.
The defence lawyers have asked the judge not to treat the case as the worst of the worst and that the men be given lower sentences.
In the other case, it is alleged that the victim, who had had an intimate relationship with Collymore, was shot at on December 23, along Sandy Park Road, in Kingston, by men travelling in a white car.
The victim, who had broken off the relationship with Collymore two months before, had reportedly met up with him before her car was shot at and damaged.
Collymore had reportedly asked to meet up with her to exchange a gift after he had invited her to lunch two days earlier and had given her the wrong gift.