Killer admits to perjuring himself
Zachery David Murphy, 24, formerly of Fredericton, admits he offered false testimony at co-accused’s first-degree murder trial, which prompted Crown to accept second-degree deal
Warning: This story contains graphic descriptions of a violent crime.
A convicted killer admitted Friday he lied at his former spouse’s murder trial early last year when he testified he’d been the one who stabbed and killed a Fredericton man repeatedly in 2020 and not her.
Zachery David Murphy, 24, formerly of Kings College Road in Fredericton, was scheduled to stand trial in Fredericton provincial court Friday on a Jan. 11, 2023, charge of perjury.
That count stemmed from his testimony at the January 2023 first-degree murder trial of his former spouse, Angela April Walsh, 25, AKA Ali Morningstar.
Both were charged in the stabbing death of Clark Ernest Hunter Greene, 31, whose body was found the morning of April 15, 2020, by a passerby at the gazebo in Wilmot Park in downtown Fredericton.
Murphy appeared in provincial court by video from the Donnacona Institution, a federal prison in Québec.
Court heard he had been scheduled to appear in court in person for the trial, but there was some sort of issue with moving him mid-transport from the Millhaven Institution in Ontario, where he’s been serving his life sentence for murder.