A TAXI driver who assisted a policeman in a robbery which resulted in a customer being shot and killed in a shop at James Hill, Clarendon was yesterday sentenced to life imprisonment for non-capital murder.A Home Circuit Court jury on Thursday convicted Rudolph Clarke, also called 'Taboo', taxi driver, of Central Village, St. Catherine of the murder of Lascelles Rosedom, farmer, of James Hill on July 21, 2000.
Mr. Justice Donald McIntosh put off sentencing until yesterday when Clarke was sentenced to life imprisonment with a recommendation that he should serve 20 years before he was eligible for parole.
The Crown represented by Georgiana Fraser, assistant director of public prosecutions and Michael Deans, Crown Counsel, led evidence at the trial that Clarke participated in the robbery and was subsequently identified by witnesses.
Constable Carl Graham, 33, who was attached to the Central Village Police Station pleaded guilty in November to Rosedom's murder. He was sentenced to life imprisonment with a recommendation that he should serve 20 years before parole.
Graham had chartered Clarke's taxi to Alston, Clarendon, where Graham's relatives lived.
After the men left Alston they went to the nearby district of James Hill where both men entered a business place called Corner Shop and began to rob the customers. When Rosedom resisted, Graham used his service revolver to shoot him.
The men ran from the shop and a licensed firearm holder shot Graham in his right eye. Investigations by the police led to the arrest of the two men. Clarke, in an unsworn statement denied being involved in the robbery.
