Friends and relatives of murder victim Martin Payne say they are haunted by the actions of “two selfish, reckless” people who chose their victim because his home was near the prison where the men escaped.
A B.C. Supreme Court jury found James Lee Busch guilty of first-degree murder late Wednesday.
At his sentencing hearing today, Justice David Crossin called the killing cold-blooded and unspeakable, and sentenced Busch to life, without chance of parole for 25 years.
Payne, who was 60, was murdered on July 8, 2019, a day after Busch and Zachary Armitage walked away from the minimum-security William Head prison, located eight kilometres from the victim’s home in Metchosin, west of Victoria….