Bail denied for father accused of killing son’s accused killer
An application for interim judicial release for a 64-year-old Christopher Lake man accused of first-degree murder has been denied.
A lengthy bail hearing was held in Prince Albert Court of King’s Bench yesterday for Reginald Durocher, whose son Christopher died by homicide in 2016.
The man who had been convicted of the killing – Ryan David Clarke – was released from custody after the Supreme Court of Canada ordered a new trial.
Clarke was convicted of murder in a jury trial held in Prince Albert but appealed. The Supreme Court based its decision that a new trial was needed on what it said was a failure by the trial judge to instruct the jury properly on the relative unreliability of eye-witness testimony.