The father of Chris Durocher has been denied bail after being accused of killing his son's killer. Pictured is Christopher Durocher. (file photo)

By Susan McNeil

Crime

Bail denied for father accused of killing son’s accused killer

Jun 7, 2023 | 10:00 AM

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.

Ryan Clarke died in April after being hit by a pickup truck at a liquor store in Northside, near Christopher Lake. (file photo)

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Clarke and Christopher were friends and had been together the evening before Christopher’s body was found in a camper on his parents’ property.

Clarke died on April 4 of this year after being hit by a pickup truck in the parking lot of a liquor store in Northside, a small community near Christopher Lake.

Reginald Durocher will have his next court hearing on June 28 in Prince Albert Provincial Court.

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susan.mcneil@pattisonmedia.com