– I’m very happy on behalf of my client. He has got his life back, says Michael Juul Eriksen.
He explains that you often sit for 14-15 years when you are sentenced to detention.
– I was very surprised by the verdict in the city court. That was also why we appealed on the spot, he says.
He has been found guilty of having attacked a man of the same age with a knife in an upstairs in Ti-Kanten in Esbjerg. At the assault in October 2019, he also beat and kicked the victim.
When the victim reported the assault to the police, he was approached and threatened by Jamaica.
A few months earlier, the musician kicked and trampled a man in the head in a parking lot in Vejle. The violence meant the victim broke his right jaw cavity.
The rapper has previously been sentenced to a total of more than three and a half years in prison since he was 17 years old.
– This is a man who does not stop despite prison sentences, prosecutor Mads-Emil Wieth said according to JydskeVestkysten at the time in the Court in Esbjerg.
Jamaica has pleaded not guilty during the trial, saying it has changed since he committed the crime.
– I was immature and rootless and had too much energy – and did not know what to do.
– I lacked some personal development. Today I am very different, I am somewhat older, see other aspects of life – and am more adult, he said according to JydskeVestkysten in the city court.
Detention is a special sanction that is used when a person has committed a dangerous crime and is considered to be so dangerous to his surroundings that an ordinary prison sentence is not sufficient.
Source: The Nordic Page