Perjury sentencing delayed for report
Court hears Zachery David Murphy, 24 - who’s serving life sentence for 2020 murder in Fredericton - didn’t co-operate with probation, but he claims there was mix-up at prison
Warning: This story contains graphic descriptions of a violent crime.
Tuesday was supposed to see the final chapter in a perjury prosecution out of a 2020 murder case, but a hearing was postponed to try again to update the offender’s pre-sentence report.
Zachery David Murphy, 24, formerly of Kings College Road in Fredericton, previously pleaded guilty to a charge of perjury arising out of his spouse’s trial on a charge of first-degree murder.
He and Angela April Walsh, 25, AKA Ali Morningstar, were arrested in May 2020 and charged with first-degree murder in the death Clark Ernest Hunter Greene, 31, who was killed in downtown Fredericton
Murphy was initially co-operative with police and the Crown, giving a sworn statement to major-crime detectives and later testimony at Walsh’s preliminary inquiry.