Two men are to be sentenced today for the 1999 shooting deaths of the sons of Jamaica's ex-football boss, Captain Horace Burrell, and a former deputy chief of police, Noel Eldrige...
News Source: Jamaica Observer
Carl McHargh, 32, a customs broker, and Ryan Rankine, could face the death penalty having been convicted yesterday for the premeditated murder of Tahj Burrell and Jason Eldrige.
McHardy was previously tried for murder in late 2002, but the court ordered that he be retried because of a hung jury. Rankine was arrested in April last year and charged as an accomplice in the crime.
Burrell, 19 at the time of the death, and Eldrige were shot dead in Northside Plaza in Liguanea on the night of July 25, 1999, shortly after Burrell had dropped his new girlfriend and her young baby at a restaurant at the mall.
Yesterday, the neatly-groomed McHardy, dressed in a grey suit and Rankine, wearing blue trousers and a floral shirt, stood impassively as a 12-member jury returned a unanimous verdict after seven hours of deliberations, witnesses said. They were handcuffed together.
The case was conducted under Gun Court rules, which bar the public.
Captain Burrell, who, until his defeat in November, served for nine years as president of the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) and his ex-wife Lourea were in court to hear the guilty verdict against their son's killers.
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