Jah Cure Now Faces 9.5-Year Prison Stint In The Netherlands

Today (October 11) may be Jah Cure’s birthday, but the Love Is singer is facing serious legal trouble in the Netherlands. Dutch prosecutors have asked the Court of Appeals to impose a 9.5-year prison sentence on the Jamaican artist for attempted murder.

“The Public Prosecutor’s Office on appeal demanded a prison sentence of 9.5 years for attempted murder against S. Alcock,” a representative of the Netherlands Prosecution Service, told DancehallMag.

The Court of Appeals will issue a ruling in November.

For several months, prosecutors have pressed their appeal against the acquittal of the singer’s attempted murder charge in the initial trial. Jah Cure’s lawyer has also appealed the attempted manslaughter conviction.

Jah Cure, whose real name is Siccature Alcock, has been in pre-trial detention in Amsterdam since his 2022 conviction. He was sentenced to six years in prison for attempted manslaughter but was acquitted of the more serious attempted murder charge.

Cure was convicted after he stabbed a Dutch concert promoter known as Nicardo ‘Papa’ Blake over unpaid performance fees in October 2021.

The trial judges had ruled that Jah Cure’s actions were not a premeditated act of attempted murder, and he was acquitted of the more serious charge.

Jah Cure rose to prominence in the mid-2000s with a string of hits, including Longing For (2005) and Love Is (2005)—songs he later admitted were recorded illegally while serving time in prison in Jamaica for illegal possession of a firearm, rape, and robbery with aggravation—and True Reflection (Behind These Prison Walls) (2007), which was officially produced under the prison’s “Rehabilitation Through Music” program. He was released on parole in July 2007 after serving eight years of a 15-year sentence.