Two men have been jailed for the machete murder of Bermudian Greg Daniels in Jamaica, including his former groundsman who plotted the killing after being sacked.

However Jamaican Police revealed another man was still wanted for the murder.

Mr. Daniels, 47, was hacked to death in the grounds of his holiday home in Hanover parish in August last year by three men who stole $4,000.

Detective Sergeant Paul Bernard said Orlando Anderson, a 26-year-old carpenter from Dundee Penn, Hanover, had been employed as a caretaker and groundsman but had been fired by Mr. Daniels.

He then entered the compound with two other men on August 22, 2003. Mr. Daniels was pulled into a bushy area and chopped to death but Police took three hours to find the body in the dense undergrowth.

Mr. Daniels had been attacked after going to shut his gate just after dinner guests had left that Friday evening and died of multiple machete wounds to his neck, back and chest.

Anderson was initially cooperative with Police and pleaded not guilty after accusing another man - Mark Campbell - of the killing.

But Anderson was found guilty of murder and sentenced to life after a unanimous verdict following a five-day trial which ended late last month.

Under Jamaican law every juror must agree in order to uphold a conviction and avoid a retrial.

Mark Campbell, a 23-year-old mason from Brissett, Hanover, pleaded guilty last month to murder and was sentenced to 20 years.

Mr. Daniels' sister Sandra Fubler said: “I guess justice has been served. At least there is closure, that's one way to look at it.

“At least I know there is someone in prison for the crime.”

Det. Sgt. Bernard said: “I am very happy, especially with the Anderson verdict. He planned it. He knew the dogs wouldn't bite him when he entered.”

He said after the murder Anderson waited outside while Campbell and another man still on the run entered the home and robbed it.

Mr. Daniels' Bermudian wife Lucinda Washington, 47, saw the robbers, jumped into the family's pick-up truck with her ten-year-old grandchild and drove to the Police station.

Det. Sgt. Bernard said Anderson stayed outside to avoid being recognised. “He took part in the murder but not the robbery.”

He said locals had co-operated well in the investigation in what is normally a low-crime area in the north west of Jamaica.

The victim typically used the home for two months at a time and then was gone again. A welder by trade, Mr. Daniels had been in Jamaica for several months and had just finished building his dream home and had planned to move there permanently.

He had a daughter and granddaughter who were also preparing to move to Jamaica.