Junior’ Jailed 18yrs for Killing Amputee

November 21 2025

Twenty-four-year-old Tuschen resident Collin Jackman, called “Junior,” was on Wednesday sentenced to 18 years’ imprisonment, less time served, after pleading guilty to the 2021 murder of 59-year-old amputee Keith Richard Hohenkirk during a drug-fuelled robbery.

Jackman had entered the guilty plea last month before Chief Justice (ag) Navindra Singh at the High Court in Demerara.

He was represented by attorney-at-law Madan Kissoon, while the State’s case was presented by State Counsel Geneva Wills, State Counsel Christopher Belfield, and State Counsel Simran Gajraj.

According to the case file, Jackman and Hohenkirk, who lived in the same Tuschen community on the East Bank of Essequibo, were known to each other.

About a week before the killing, Jackman and several accomplices conspired to drug and rob Hohenkirk using “molly,” a psychotropic substance.

On October 23, 2021, they mixed the drug into a bottle of Banko wine and took it to the victim’s home.

That night, the group entered the house, tied Hohenkirk up, and gagged him with a sheet and scotch tape.

Jackman then struck him multiple times in the face and head while the others ransacked the home and shop, stealing snacks, beverages, and money.

Jackman and another accomplice later returned for the wine bottle and found Hohenkirk motionless and cold, but still went on to rob the shop again before fleeing.

Police discovered the victim’s body the following morning, October 24, 2021.

He was found on his back with his hands and mouth bound amid a ransacked room, and was pronounced dead at the Leonora Cottage Hospital.

Jackman was arrested two days later and, in a caution statement, admitted to participating in the plan to drug and rob Hohenkirk and to striking him during the attack.

A post-mortem examination by Government Pathologist Dr. Nehaul Singh found that Hohenkirk died from a subdural haematoma due to blunt trauma to the head, along with compression injuries to the neck.