Prison barriers plague perjury prosecution
Defence counsel for killer Zachery David Murphy, 24, having trouble reaching client
Warning: This story contains graphic descriptions of a violent crime.
A former Fredericton man serving a life sentence for murder finally has a lawyer to represent him on a related perjury charge, but his counsel hasn’t been able to reach him in an Ontario prison.
Zachery David Murphy, 24, formerly of Kings College Road in Fredericton, pleaded guilty in 2022 to second-degree murder for his role in the April 15, 2020, stabbing death of Clark Ernest Hunter Greene, 31.
He was co-operative with police and told investigators his spouse - Angela April Walsh, 25, AKA Ali Morningstar, also formerly of Fredericton - had hatched a plan to lure Greene to Wilmot Park downtown with the intent of robbing him.
Instead, she stabbed him multiple times in the face and the chest.
Murphy testified to that at Walsh’s preliminary inquiry and he was to be a key Crown witness in her first-degree murder trial in January 2023. However, he changed his story on the witness stand, claiming he was solely responsible for the murder and that Walsh had nothing to do with it.