Currently serving a 15-year sentence for the 2016 killing of Charlestown youth Gregory Garraway, Joshua Meredith was yesterday afternoon handed a life sentence for the killing of Paul Rodney, a mere month later.
Justice Jo-Ann Barlow ordered that Meredith not be considered eligible for parole until after he would have served at least 30 years behind bars.
At his arraignment for Rodney’s murder back in March, Meredith who had originally been indicted for the capital offence, pleaded not guilty, copping instead to the lesser charge of manslaughter.
He accepted that on November 21st, 2016, at Avocado Square, East Ruimveldt, he unlawfully killed Rodney.
Meredith had been jointly charged with Colvin Johnson, who is currently facing trial.
Rodney, 31, of Lot 530 West Ruimveldt, was gunned down on November 21, 2016, while returning from a dance in his community.
In December 2020, Meredith was charged with murdering Garraway in the course or furtherance of a robbery on October 2, 2016 at the Wings and Things Bar on Mandela Avenue.
The prosecution’s case was that Garraway had gone into the bar to place an order and was making his way to uplift it when Meredith snatched his two chains, whipped out a gun and fired a shot at him. Garraway was hit in the abdomen and died just over a week later of septic shock.
Meredith had also pleaded guilty to the lesser offence of manslaughter in this case.
Justice Priya Sewnarine-Beharry had sentenced Meredith to 15 years behind bars.
