Farmer, Richard Martin, is now awaiting sentencing for the September 2020 killing of Bourda Market labourer Ovid Chester, who had been stabbed to death after he reportedly conned Martin out of a net that he promised to sell.
Martin was on trial for murder before High Court Judge Simone Morris-Ramlall when he decided that the trial be aborted, indicating through his attorney that he wished to confess to what he had done.
He pleaded to the lesser count of manslaughter, accepting when the charge was re-read to him, that he had in fact unlawfully killed Chester on September 2nd, 2020 at an alley off Bourda Street near North Road.