Campus Trendz Killer Jamar DeWayne Bynoe Receives Six Life Sentences for Murder of Six Women in Barbados Firebombing Case

Declaring that his actions will “forever remain etched in the psyche of Barbados”, a High Court judge yesterday imposed six life sentences on Campus Trendz killer Jamar DeWayne Bynoe for the murder of six women who died while hiding as the Tudor Street store was firebombed 14 years ago.

Justice Michelle Weekes ordered that 34-yearold Bynoe must serve a minimum of 55 years, after deductions for time he had spent on remand and delay, before he could be considered for release from prison.

“The traumatic incident, that resulted in six indictments for murder being laid against Jamar Bynoe in 2011, will be etched in the memories of the Barbadian public and the family and friends of the six murder victims for a lifetime and perhaps for generations. This tragedy captured the attention of Barbados at all levels of society,” she said.

“I am satisfied that a custodial sentence is justified and only such a sentence would protect the public from serious harm,” the judge told the murderer yesterday.

Original sentence

However, Bynoe, whose reports said he did not believe he was responsible for the girls’ deaths and that he was more remorseful about the punishment he might face for his actions, rather than for the actions themselves, showed no emotion.

Bynoe, formerly of Headley’s Land, Bank Hall, St Michael, was originally sentenced to hang after he was found guilty, in July 2016, for the murder of Shanna Griffith, Kelly-Ann Welch, Pearl Cornelius, Kellishaw Olivierre, Nikita Belgrave and Tiffany Harding in the blaze of September 3, 2010.

Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions Alliston Seale, SC, prosecuted the matters, while Bynoe was represented by Senior Counsel Andrew Pilgrim and attorney Sian Lange.

Bynoe appealed his sentence and conviction but the Court of Appeal told him it had found no merit in the grounds and upheld the conviction.

However, the Court of Appeal said since the mandatory sentence of death had been struck down by the Caribbean Court of Justice, that sentence would be vacated and his matter would be remitted to the High Court judge, who presided over the trial, for him to be re-sentenced.

Yesterday, Justice Weekes, who presided in the No. 2 Supreme Court, said the events unfolded after 5 p.m. when two men entered the clothing store with intent to commit a robbery as an agreed plan.

She said she had considered that Bynoe was armed with a knife when he and his accomplice entered the store; that the store’s