KINGSTON, Jamaica – Maxie Robinson, the 48-year-old man implicated in the death-threat hoax against Opposition Leader Andrew Holness, pleaded guilty to a charge of creating public mischief when he appeared in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday.

He is to be sentenced on March 31.

According to court documents, Robinson went to the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) headquarters on Belmont Road in Kingston, on the afternoon of January 28, and reported that JLP MPs Daryl Vaz (West Portland), James Robertson (West St Thomas) and Othniel Lawrence, caretaker for the North West St Ann constituency, had contracted three men to assassinate Holness and general secretary Dr Horace Chang.

Robinson had, reportedly submitted the names of the three would-be assassins.

The allegation of the assassination plot went public with the police beefed up security around Holness, who had commented publicly on the matter.

But the police, based on inconsistencies borne out during the investigation, confronted Robinson on Tuesday, February 10, during which he reportedly gave a written confession to detectives in the presence of his attorney.

Court documents say that Robinson admitted to fabricating the story about the assassination plot.

He was subsequently arrested and charged.