Omar Collymore and co-convicts given life sentences for wife's murder

Omar Collymore who was found guilty of orchestrating the contract killing of his wife and her taxi driver six years ago was this morning sentenced to life in prison. 

The 41-year-old United States businessman who was handed two life sentences for each murder will have to serve 46 year six months before being considered for parole. Both life sentences are to run concurrently.

The contract killer, Michael Adams, was also sentenced to two life sentences for the double murder and will be eligible for parole after serving 42 years and six months in prison.

A third convict, Dwayne Pink, was also handed two life sentences for the double murder and is to serve 32 years and six months before parole consideration.

Shaquilla Edwards, who had withdrawn from the murder plot before the victims were killed and was only found guilty of conspiracy to murder, was sentenced to one year.

Six and half years were shaved off each of the sentences for time spent in custody by the convicts.

Collymore and Pink were also sentenced to one year and six months for conspiracy to murder while Adams was sentenced to 2 years and six months. 

All the sentences are to run concurrently.

The sentences were handed down by Justice Leighton Pusey in the Home Circuit Court.

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, 41, a United States businessman; contract killer Michael Adams, 33, a tailor and salesman; and Pink, 34, a construction worker, were found guilty of the murders of both victims as well as conspiracy to murder on May 15, following a four-month long trial.

- Tanesha Mundle

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