THIRTY-EIGHT-YEAR-OLD Orin Jerrick appeared before Justice Brassington Reynolds in the High Court, on Tuesday, charged with the 2014 killing of Plaisance minibus driver, Gavin Fiffee.

Originally charged with murder, Jerrick opted to plead guilty to the lesser count of manslaughter.

The indictment read that on July 31, 2014, at the Plaisance mini-bus park at Regent Street and Avenue of the Republic, Georgetown, Jerrick murdered Fiffee.

Justice Brassington adjourned the matter until November 15, 2019, for sentencing.

In 2016, Jerrick went on trial before High Court Judge Navindra Singh, who had imposed a 28-year jail term after a 12- member jury returned a unanimous guilty verdict.

However, his attorney successfully appealed the conviction and sentence on his behalf at the Court of Appeal.

The attorney had argued that Justice Singh failed to adequately put his client’s case of self-defence to the jury for consideration.

In 2020, the Court of Appeal had set aside the conviction and sentence and ordered a retrial for Jerrick.