KINGSTON, Jamaica — Reggae star Jah Cure will know his fate when he heads to the Netherlands Court of Appeals for a substantive hearing on June 18 to determine whether Dutch prosecutors can pursue an attempted murder charge against him.

Over the past few months, a Netherlands investigative judge had been hearing witnesses as Dutch prosecutors pressed their appeal against the acquittal of the Unconditional Love singer’s attempted murder charge in the initial trial. Jah Cure’s lawyer has also appealed the attempted manslaughter conviction.

The substantive hearing has been scheduled for June, 18 2025, from 2:00 pm to 4:30 pm.

“At the substantive hearing, the case will be presented to the Court of Appeals and they will decide,” a representative of the Netherlands Prosecution Service, said.

Only hearings where there is application of judicial mind to the resolution of the dispute, are classified as “substantive”, in other words, a hearing at which the outcome of a matter is expected to be decided.

Jah Cure, whose real name is Siccature Alcock, has been in pre-trial detention in Amsterdam while awaiting the handling of the prosecutors’ appeal of his 2022 conviction. Alcock was convicted to a six-year sentence in March 2022 for attempted manslaughter, but he was acquitted of the attempted murder charge. Cure was convicted after he stabbed a Dutch concert promoter known as Nicardo ‘Papa’ Blake over unpaid performance fees in October 2021.

The trial judges had ruled that Jah Cure’s actions were not a premeditated act of attempted murder, and he was acquitted of the more serious charge.

— Claude Mills