Barbara Gayle, Staff Reporter
A POLICEMAN who robbed a business place in Clarendon five years ago and fatally shot a customer has been ordered by the Court of Appeal to serve his sentence of life imprisonment.
Carl Graham, 35, will have to serve 20 years before he will be eligible for parole.
Graham, who was stationed at the Central Village Police Station, had pleaded guilty in November 2004 to non-capital murder. He was charged with the capital murder of Lascelles Rosedom, of James Hill, Clarendon, on July 21, 2000.
Graham pleaded guilty before Justice Lennox Campbell in the Home Circuit Court and was sentenced on December 3, 2004.
HELD AT HOSPITAL
Graham, who is from Alston, Clarendon, had gone to Alston to visit relatives when he went to James Hill and robbed the bar and shot Rosedom. A licensed firearm holder, who was nearby, shot Graham in the right eye as he was leaving the bar.
He was held later that day at the University Hospital, where he had gone for treatment.
He appealed on the grounds that his sentence was manifestly excessive, but the Court of Appeal dismissed his appeal and ordered that his sentence begin on March 17, 2005.
