Killer unable to reach legal aid on perjury charge
Accused of lying on witness stand in spouse’s murder trial, Zachery David Murphy, 24, of Fredericton, serving life sentence in Ontario prison for his role in Clark Greene’s 2020 death
A perjury case against a convicted murderer is crawling through the courts at a snail’s pace because the accused, serving a life sentence in an Ontario prison, can’t connect with legal aid in New Brunswick.
Zachery David Murphy, 24, formerly of Kings College Road in Fredericton, pleaded guilty in 2022 to second-degree murder in the April 15, 2020, stabbing death of Clark Ernest Hunter Greene, 31, in Fredericton.
He’s serving a life sentence with no parole eligibility for the first 11 years of that term at Millhaven Institution, a maximum-security prison in Bath, Ont.
However, Murphy found himself before the New Brunswick courts again late last year, charged with perjury. That count flows from his appearance as a Crown witness at the first-degree murder trial of his former spouse, Angela April Walsh, 25, AKA Ali Morningstar, at the Burton Courthouse on Jan. 11, 2023.