Reggae star Jah Cure will be forced to spend more time in prison as the Amsterdam Court of Appeal has sentenced the Love Is singer to eight years and four months in prison on appeal for stabbing a concert promoter in 2021 on Dam Square in Amsterdam.

He was found guilty of attempted murder.

A representative of the Netherlands Prosecution Service, told one876entertainment hat the Supreme Court issued the ruling on October 30.

“The court of appeal, unlike the district court, finds the defendant guilty of attempted murder. The defendant stabbed the victim in the abdomen with a knife, perforating, among other things, the anterior and posterior walls of his stomach,” the ruling said.

Based on, among other things, the voice messages sent by the defendant and the circumstances under which the defendant stabbed the victim, the court concludes that the act was premeditated. Further considerations regarding conditional intent. The court dismissed Jah Cure’s defence of “self-defence”.

“The court rejects the plea of ​​(putative) self-defense (excessive), as the factual basis for that plea has not been made plausible. The court sentences the defendant (after reducing the sentence on the grounds that the sentence was excessive) to a prison term of eight years and four months,” the ruling concluded.

The ruling spoke to the savagery of the act which, and the court noted with particular consideration that the incident occurred in broad daylight at a busy tourist location.

“By this act, the suspect seriously endangered the victim’s life and grossly violated his physical integrity. The fact that the injury was not fatal is fortunate, but not attributable to the suspect,” the ruling said.

The court pointed to the nature of the stabbing that eroded public trust in their collective security and safety. as it took place in the “heart of Amsterdam”.

“Besides the physical and psychological consequences the victim suffers from this act, such a crime also confirms and exacerbates the prevailing feelings of fear and insecurity in society, due to the apparent ease with which stabbing weapons are available and the frivolousness with which they are used. The court takes into account in particular that the incident took place in broad daylight on Dam Square, a busy tourist spot in the heart of Amsterdam,” the ruling said.

In 2021, the artist had a business dispute with the victim, a Dutch concert promoter known as Nicardo ‘Papa’ Blake, over payment for a performance in Amsterdam. The suspect waited for the victim on Dam Square and suddenly, in broad daylight, stabbed him forcefully in the stomach.

Following the court’s previous verdict, new information surfaced that the suspect sent to a friend. In these voice messages, he announced that he would meet the victim at Dam Square and that he had picked up a knife. He also indicated in the messages that he would wait for the victim so he could stab him. The court therefore finds that the suspect acted with premeditation.

For several months, in the Netherlands Court of Appeals, Dutch prosecutors have pressed their appeal against the acquittal of the Unconditional Love 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 while awaiting the handling of the prosecutors’ appeal of his 2022 conviction. Mr. Alcock was convicted to a six-year sentence in March 2022 for attempted manslaughter, but he was acquitted of the 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.