Zebra sentenced to 30 years for sexual offences

(Jamaica Observer) Popular dancehall deejay ‘Zebra’ was sentenced to 30 years at hard labour in the St Catherine Circuit Court, yesterday morning.

The deejay, whose real name is Garfield Vassell, was found guilty this week for carnal abuse and buggery.  The crown led evidence that the entertainer who is from Spanish Town, sexually assaulted the teenage daughter of his girlfriend.
He was held in June last year, after eluding the police for four months.

Zebra who was previously found guilty of rape and was freed in 2008 on that charge.