Jah Cure Hearing Set For June As Dutch Prosecutors Push To Reinstate Attempted Murder Charge

There will be a substantive hearing on June 18 in the case Jah Cure to determine whether Dutch prosecutors can pursue the Reggae singer on an attempted murder charge.

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.

“The substantive hearing has been scheduled, it will take place on 18 June 2025 from 14:00 – 16:30,” a representative of the Netherlands Prosecution Service, told DancehallMag.

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. This may be referred to as a defended hearing (family and civil), a trial (criminal and civil processes) or an appeal hearing.

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. Mr. Alcock was convicted to a six-year sentence in March 2022 for attempted manslaughter, but he was acquitted of the attempted murder charge.

Jah Cure’s lawyer has also appealed the attempted manslaughter conviction.

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.