Orin Jerrick was yesterday handed a 10-year sentence for the 2014 killing of Plaisance minibus driver, Gavin Fiffee; but will serve only the next two years, following deductions for the eight years he had been on remand.
Back in February of 2016, Jerrick who was tried for the capital offence, was convicted by a jury on the lesser count of manslaughter instead. He had been sentenced to serve 28 years in jail.
He, however, subsequently appealed his conviction which the Guyana Court of Appeal in 2020 found was unsafe, owing to a number of legal errors the trial judge had made.
