80 years for one, retrial for second in 2015 family massacre

According to Jamaica Observer (General News), AN appeal from two men serving life behind bars for the “brutal execution-type slaying” of six members of one family and the arson of the family home, which left four survivors severely burnt, has resulted in one felon losing his bid to overturn his conviction and his 80-year pre-parole period being affirmed, while the other is heading to a retrial for the six murders. The Appeal Court, however, affirmed the sentences for that man on five other counts. The men, Mikhail Campbell and Errol Clarke, had been jointly charged, tried, and convicted on an indictment containing 11 counts for the offences of arson (count one), murder (counts two to seven), and causing grievous bodily harm with intent (counts eight to 11) before Supreme Court Judge Justice Martin Gayle and a jury in the Hanover Circuit Court in November 2018. The jury convicted both men on all 11 counts, unanimously in the case of