by DHRW 
(Jamaica)

THE prosecution in the Vybz Kartel murder case on Friday disclosed tantalizing new details in the matter as it successfully opposed a bail application for the artiste in the Home Circuit Court.

According to the prosecution, it was in possession of text messages between Kartel and an unidentified person discussing arrangements for the artiste to flee the island — via aeroplane or a drug boat to Cuba or The Bahamas — in the wake of the murder Clive ‘Lizard’ Williams, a friend of Kartel’s.

Senior prosecutor Jeremy Taylor read excerpts of the texts which included mention of contacts within the police force and the apparent cleaning of Kartel’s Havendale, St Andrew house where Williams was reportedly killed on August 16, 2011.

“If mi haffi leave the island fast you assist me? You have a link to mek mi leave the island fast?” read an alleged text by Kartel.

Response: “Yea, by boat.”

The Bahamas and Cuba were discussed at one point and a possible pick-up point at St Elizabeth.

“Mi no waa wait ’til things get hot…,” Kartel is reported to have said in another text.

According to Taylor, the texts trail was found in Kartel’s phone when he was arrested at the end of September 2011 at a hotel in Kingston.

Taylor said also that Kartel had twice made plans for the main witness to the alleged murder to leave the island for Guyana but that he refused to go.