Two men accused of killing a man the day after escaping a minimum-security federal prison on Vancouver Island have each pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder as their trial gets underway in British Columbia Supreme Court.
Zachary Armitage and James Lee Busch are charged with killing 60-year-old Martin Payne in July 2019, a day after the pair walked away from William Head Institution, located about eight kilometres from the victim’s home in Metchosin.
Crown prosecutor Sofia Bakken says Payne was killed in his home after returning from his job as a mail carrier in Victoria the day after the two men escaped. Bakken told the court there was a “significant” amount of blood in Payne’s home, and a pathologist is also expected to testify about identifying “chop wounds” to the victim’s skull that were consistent with those inflicted by a hatchet.
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