Ninjaman is staring down a life judgement in prison and will likely run across the likes of Vybz Kartel who he once had a beef with.

The dancehall legend was convicted on Monday by a seven-fellow member jury panel. The artist, born Desmond Ballentine, his son Janiel, and Dennis Clayton were all found guilty of the killing of Ricardo Johnson, a crime that could take been hands avoided. According to the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP), Paula Llewellyn, Ninjaman legal troubles started from a simple domestic dispute on Marl Route, Kingston thirteen, over kitchen space.

"Ane of the tenants was an old lady, and she fabricated a report to her granddaughter, who was the baby female parent of Dennis Clayton, one of the accused," DPP, Paula Llewellyn, said. The prosecution star witness, who we will not name, testified in courtroom that the artist fired two shots subsequently him, only he managed to escape the gunfire. His friend Johnson, aka Ricky Trooper, was shot and killed.

"There was a quarrel between Witness A (the principal prosecution witness) and Mr. Clayton," the DPP added. "They got into a concrete fight and Mr. Clayton won the fight. Mr. Clayton said, 'I am going to become for a gun and shoot yuh." DPP Llewellyn noted that Dennis Clayton, one of the convicted men, visited a grand on Marl Route on March 16, 2009, where he got into a concrete fight with the principal witness, who was the landlord of the tenant.

The following morning (March 17th) at effectually 8 o'clock, Clayton and a 4th suspect in the murder case, who is at present deceased, went to the aforementioned yard where another argument developed between himself and the main witness. The victim, Ricardo Johnson, who lives a few houses down on the same street, was there to visit his friend, who is the main witness. Clayton and the now dead 4th suspect fled the scene while issuing threats. After that solar day, Ricardo Johnson, and the primary witness went to Johnson's home and that's when Clayton showed up in a car with Ninjaman and his son Janiel, who threatened to shoot the witness.

The three men left and later returned with a group of men with bats and boards to confront the witness and Johnson on Lower Marl Road, according to the DPP. The two men ran to the back of a house and went through a fence. "According Witness A, Desmond Ballentine shot at him," the DPP said. Johnson had a cutlass in his mitt and was pushing against the fence to prevent the men from coming through and that'due south when he was shot dead.

Ninjaman says he is innocent of the criminal offense and the master witness is currently in the witness protection programme.