A B.C. Supreme Court jury is deliberating whether former Devil’s Army president Richard Ernest Alexander is guilty or not guilty of the first-degree murder of mixed martial arts fighter Dillon Brown.
Brown, 30, was shot in the back of the head at the outlaw motorcycle clubhouse in Campbell River on March 11, 2016. Alexander denies killing Brown but admitted in a court document that he drove Brown’s car with Brown’s body in the trunk to Sayward and abandoned the car by the side of the road.
On Monday afternoon, Justice Geoffrey Gaul instructed the 11-member jury on the rules of law as they apply in this case. The fundamental issue is identity. The jury must decide if the Crown has proved beyond a reasonable doubt that Alexander killed Brown. X has a powerful motive to lie, Anderson charged. He knew he was a suspect in the murder because the phone he was using was at the scene of the crime when Brown was killed. X was given a clear choice — he could either be a suspect or a witness, said Anderson. After his first police interview, X went home and told his wife Y that he thought he was facing 20 years in prison.
He was a habitual liar. He repeatedly lied to his wife about his knowledge of the murder and about his use of her phone. He also lied to the police, said Anderson.“That is a jaw dropping prior inconsistent statement that X made to his wife probably because he was still trying to figure out what to say to police when he told her that,” he said.
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