Two men, who made Jamaica's Most Wanted list while crime ran rampant late last year, were both convicted last Thursday and sentenced to four year's imprisonment each, in the Gun Court by acting high court judge Leighton Pusey.

The men, Joseph Brown, otherwise known as 'Jockey', and Garfield Murray, also called 'Laws', were members of a gang and were wanted for questioning in a number of crimes committed in the Gregory Park area of St Catherine last year, including murder and police shootings.

HELD IN pre-dawn raid

They were held by the Portmore police in a pre-dawn raid in Johnson's Pen, Spanish Town, on January 23 this year.

The evidence, as given by arres-ting officers Jason McKay and Lloyd Knight, was that both men fled from a premises during the raid and ran into a police cordon.

When searched by McKay and Knight, both men were found to be carrying firearms and ammunition.

The trial which lasted for six days, saw the accused men being represented by Jacqueline Cum-mings and Ronald Koathes.

Reign of terror

It was also brought out that the Gregory Park community, where two women were shot during the men's reign of terror, breathed a sigh of relief upon their capture.

In sentencing the men, Justice Pusey said he had a responsibility to society to ensure the safety of the public and had to send a strong message that illegal firearms and ammunition would not be tolerated by the courts.

It was also brought out in sentencing that Brown was training to be a racehorse jockey and Murray, at age 34, did not have a single conviction to his name, despite his infamy.