A 21-year-old man from Erin has been sen­tenced to 18 years in prison af­ter ad­mit­ting to mur­der­ing a Venezue­lan mi­grant af­ter com­mit­ting a rob­bery in 2022.

Tyrece Austin, of Ran­cho Que­ma­do, Erin, re­ceived the sen­tence on Wednes­day af­ter plead­ing guilty to mur­der, pos­ses­sion of a firearm and am­mu­ni­tion, and three counts of rob­bery with ag­gra­va­tion be­fore Jus­tice Nali­ni Singh.

Austin was al­lowed to plead guilty to the cap­i­tal of­fence as he was 17-years-old when he com­mit­ted the crime with a neigh­bour and could not face the manda­to­ry death penal­ty.