Former police constable, Ricketo Graham was sentenced today (July 14) to life imprisonment for the July 2013 murder of Christopher Hill in St. Ann.

The ruling was handed down by Justice Glen Brown in the Home Circuit Court.

He ordered that Graham serve 35 years before he would be eligible for parole.

In sentencing Graham, Justice Brown said the murder of Hill was a cold-blooded and callous killing, and that this should be a warning to other officers that unless they discharge their firearms in self-defence, a custodial sentence would be in order.

Graham was found guilty last month by a seven member jury.

Evidence was presented at the trial, that Hill was accosted by the police, taken to the Brown’s Town police station, processed and taken to Wesley Crescent, where he was shot.

He died at the St. Ann’s Bay Hospital days later.

Indecom arrested and charged Constable Graham on July 19, 2013, with attempting to pervert the course of justice and murder.