Man gets 30 years for fatal shooting

Mar 02, 2019 News

When the Demerara criminal assizes continued yesterday, 30-year-old Kevin Junior Francis was found guilty of manslaughter by a jury and was sentenced to 30 years imprisonment by trial Judge Navindra Singh.
Justice Singh ordered that the prison authorities deduct from the sentence, the time Francis spent in pre-trial custody.
Francis was initially indicted for murder. However the jury convicted him for the lesser offence in that, on August 5, 2015, he unlawfully killed 23-year-old mason, Akeem Yorrick, formerly of Plaisance, East Coast Demerara.
According to reports, Yorrick was shot dead around 22:00hrs on the day in question, while he was on his way to visit his girlfriend. Based on reports, a group of residents of Plaisance, East Coast Demerara, had confronted a man, whom they accused of carrying out an armed robbery in the village.
During that time, an altercation ensued and at some stage, the man believed to be Francis, pulled out a gun and discharged a round into the group of residents, fatally wounding Yorrick. During the trial, the father of the deceased recounted that on the day in question he was at home when his daughter called and told him something.
As a result, the father said he rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation where doctors told him his son had died. The father added that on August 7, 2015, he went back to the hospital where he witnessed a post mortem examination being conducted on his son who was later buried on August 13, 2015.
The murder accused was represented by Attorney-at-Law Maxwell McKay, while the case for the prosecution was presented by State Counsel Tuanna Hardy and Teriq Mohamed. This trial was heard at the High Court in Georgetown.

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