–accompanied by attorney

THIRTY-YEAR-OLD Orin Jerrick of Ann’s Grove, East Coast Demerara, the man allegedly responsible for stabbing dead 31-year-old bus driver Gavin Fiffee of Beterverwagting, East Coast Demerara at the Plaisance Bus park in Georgetown, turned himself over to the police at Brickdam a little after 15:00hrs yesterday, accompanied by a female attorney whose only name was given as De Santos.

This information has been confirmed to this publication by a senior police officer.

Just after the stabbing incident, the police had both issued a wanted bulletin and had launched a search for Jerrick, whose relatives had promised to turn him over to the police. Currently being held at the Brickdam Police Station, Jerrick is expected to be arraigned today in the Georgetown Magistrates Courts.

Police reports detail that at about 17:45 hours on Thursday, July 31, Gavin Fiffee of Beterverwagting, East Coast Demerara was involved in an argument with a man at the Plaisance Bus Park on Upper Regent Street, Georgetown during which he was stabbed to his chest. Fiffee succumbed to his injuries while receiving medical treatment at the Georgetown Public Hospital.

Fiffee had reportedly objected to the man urinating on his bus when an argument ensued, which later escalated into a brawl, during which he was stabbed to his upper right chest.

(By Asif Hakim)