Shab Don Heads Back To Court On Triple Murder Charge
Popular music producer Linval ‘Shab Don’ Thompson Jr is set to appear in court on Thursday, December 1, after the police failed to produce him to stand trial today for breaching the Corruption Prevention Act.
When the matter was called up for mention in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court this morning, Thompson was not present.
“I don’t know why he wasn’t brought to court,” a perplexed Donahue Martin, attorney-at-law for the accused, told DancehallMag.
“The judge stayed the warrant which was issued in July until April 18th next year; therefore, his status remains the same.”
Allegations in the corruption case are that Shab Don offered a policeman two million dollars to cause an illegal firearm, which was found in a vehicle he was driving, to go missing.
According to a police report, members of the Specialised Operations SWAT team searched a vehicle Thompson Jr and co-accused Romario “BMR” Scott were traveling in and found a loaded illegal gun. The incident occurred on South Street in Old Harbour.
Both men were subsequently charged.
Scott pleaded guilty in April 2022 and is currently serving six years and one month for possession of a firearm, and four years and one month for possession of ammunition in prison. The sentences are running concurrently. Shab Don was freed of the gun charges in April.
However, the music producer remains in police custody in relation to another matter, a triple murder, for which he will be appearing in court on December 1 in the St. James parish court.
In June, the Any Weather music producer was charged with three counts of murder that occurred on Marl Road, Rose Heights in St. James on Wednesday, May 25. Shab Don was positively identified during an identification parade.
Thompson Jr was identified as a person of interest in the triple murder which occurred in Rose Heights, St James, on May 25.
On the night in question, five people were shot when masked men sprayed them with bullets. One man died immediately after the shooting, and another two — a man and a woman — died overnight.
Shab Don, who is reportedly the son of singer Linval Thompson, boasts production credits which include Vybz Kartel’s Any Weather, Squash’s Money Fever, and Teejay’s Shub Out.