CONVICTED gunpoint carjacker, Akeiron Cummings was yesterday sentenced to three years imprisonment on two robbery under arms charges after changing his plea. 

The sentences will now run concurrently after the twenty-four-year-old mason accepted the facts against him.
On March 10 he approached taxi driver Colin Williams at the Stabroek Market bus park and requested to be taken to Guyhoc Park.
Cummings upon arrival at his destination brandished a gun and demanded the man’s valuables. He managed to relieve Williams of $3.1M in items, including his $2M car.
And on March 5 at Diamond Housing Scheme taxi driver Lionel Seenarine was approached by Cummings for a lift to Durban Backlands in the city. The taxi driver accepted but upon arrival at the destination, the accused pointed a gun at his head and escaped with the man’s car.
Before handing down the sentence, the Chief Magistrate took into consideration the seriousness of the offence, the convict’s plea, the saving of the court’s time, and the other pending matters of a similar nature.
The two-year imprisonment will run concurrently with the other jail term.
Along with this Sophia resident, three other prisoners had escaped that day. They are 28-year-old Vickram ‘Lil John’ Persaud, Steve Richard Bacchus, and Randolph Marks.
Persaud of Doctor Dam in La Grange, West Bank Demerara, was shot dead, allegedly during an armed confrontation with the police at Fort Wellington, West Coast Berbice.
Persaud had been charged with the murder of Constable Michael Cumberbatch of the Tactical Services Unit (TSU).
Bacchus, 21, was recaptured on May 19 along Brickdam in the vicinity of the court. He was charged with the murder of Police Special Constable Quincy Wright at Guyhoc Park, Georgetown on January 24 last.
Twenty–year–old Marks, who was charged with the murder of Patsan Trading employee Bharrat Ramcharran was found hiding under a bed in East La Penitence on May 20.