The three men charged with the murder of Assistant Police Commissioner Gilbert Kameka have been found guilty.

They are 26-year-old Massinissa Adams of Industry Village, 18-year-old Kemar Dawson of Standpipe and 21-year-old Rohan Townsend of Irish Town, all in St Andrew.

A 12-member Home Circuit Court jury handed down the verdict yesterday after retiring for four hours.

Senior Puisne Judge Marva McIntosh ordered that the convicts return to the Home Circuit Court on Friday for a date to be set for their sentencing.

During the eight-week trial, the prosecution, represented by attorney-at-law Kathy Pyke, and prosecutors Maxine Jackson and Keisha Prince relied on the testimony of an 18-year-old witness to prove its case.

After the verdict was handed down, Pyke praised the police for their very thorough investigations.

The 18-year-old witness admitted that she conspired with the men to rob Kameka of his firearm. She was previously charged with murder, but that charge was later withdrawn.

She did plead guilty to conspiracy to rob Kameka and was given a three-year suspended sentence.

Intimate relationship

The witness testified that she had an intimate relationship with 48-year-old ACP Kameka and Adams was also her boyfriend.

She said on the evening before the murder, Adams called her and asked her about Kameka. She said she told him that Kameka was coming to Irish Town the next day to see her. She said Adams told her he would be coming for Kameka's gun.

The witness said at the time there was no plan to kill the assistant police commissioner. She said at the time she did not know that Kameka was a cop. She said Kameka told her he had an executive job at a business place on Spanish Town Road.

The witness said the following day, November 29, 2007, Kameka came to her house in Irish Town and while he was there, she went to the main road.

She said Adams and another man subsequently identified as Dawson put handkerchiefs over their faces and went into the house.

The witness said when Adams and Dawson were going into the house Townsend was fixing a pipe in a gully near to the house. The Crown alleged that Townsend was the lookout man.

According to the witness, Kameka was talking on his cellphone to another senior cop when Adams shot him twice before running away.

The witness said after Kameka was fatally shot, Adams told her that she should go to the police station and report a robbery. She said Townsend accompanied her to the station and told her to tell investigators that three masked men had committed the crime.

On December 6, 2007, the police went to a house on Crescent Road, Kingston 13, where they found Adams hiding in the ceiling and Dawson underneath a bed. Dawson begged for his life and told the police that it was Adams who shot Kameka and forced him to rob the policeman.

The three men denied knowing each other but the prosecution used their cellphone records to show that the accused men knew each other.

In their defence, the men denied knowing each other and said they had nothing to do with Kameka's murder.

barbara.gayle@gleanerjm.com