Former gang leader Joel Andem is to spend the next 40 years in prison for gun offences.

Andem was on the police most wanted list until he was captured in Clarksonville, St Ann, in May 2004.

Supreme Court Judge Paulette Williams sentenced him yesterday to a total of 20 years' imprisonment. She ordered that the sentence was consecutive to the 20 years Andem was now serving.

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The judge found Andem guilty of shooting with intent and illegal possession of firearm.

The Crown alleged at the trial in the Gun Court that sometime in 2002, Andem fired at a police party in Kintyre, St Andrew.

Andem was sentenced in the Gun Court in 2005 to 20 years' imprisonment for shooting at a police party in Jacks Hill, St Andrew, in January 2002.

He appealed against those convictions and sentences but the Court of Appeal dismissed the matter in 2007.