Twenty-two-year-old Marlon Garrett now awaits sentencing after admitting yesterday morning to the 2017 killing of vagrant Omesh Chateram, who he stabbed at Bourda Market.
The man had been originally indicted for murder, but threw himself at the mercy of the Court, pleading guilty to the lesser offence of manslaughter at his arraignment yesterday.
Garrett accepted the charge which stated that on September 11th, 2016, at Robb and Bourda streets, Georgetown he unlawfully killed the then unidentified man.
Police would later identify the victim as Omesh Chateram.
Justice Sandil Kissoon has, however, deferred his sentencing to June 9th for the presentation of probation and other social reports; as well as mitigating and aggravating submissions from his lawyer and the prosecution respectively.
Police had said that Chetram, who was described as a vagrant, was involved in an argument with the then 17-year-old Garrett, during which he was stabbed once in his abdomen.
He was then rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
Garrett is being represented by defence attorney Ravindra Mohabir, while the State is being represented by Prosecutor Taneisha Saygon, in association with Abigail Gibbs.
The case was called at the High Court in Demerara.
