New Brunswick·NewA Nova Scotia man who killed a murderer in a New Brunswick prison has been sentenced. Christian Clyke already serving a life sentence for murder in N.S.Shane Magee · CBC News · Posted: Oct 28, 2025 3:29 PM EDT | Last Updated: 27 minutes agoListen to this articleEstimated 3 minutesChristian Enang Clyke, 33, shown during a pre-trial appearance in Miramichi court in February 2024. (Andrew Robson)A Nova Scotia man who ambushed and killed a fellow inmate in a New Brunswick prison three years ago was sentenced in Miramichi court Tuesday. Christian Enang Clyke, 33, was found guilty in August of second-degree murder in the Oct. 6, 2022, death of Richard King. Clyke and King were inmates serving life sentences at the Atlantic Institution, a maximum security prison in Renous, southwest of Miramichi.Dring Tuesday’s sentencing hearing, Crown prosecutor Patrick McGuinty called Clyke’s actions a “vicious ambush.””A son, a stepson, a father and a grandfather has lost his life to Mr. Clyke,” Ferguson said of King, who the judge heard was nearing his release date. Clyke’s 2nd murder convictionKing was serving a life sentence for second-degree murder in the 2006 death of Shawn Tomah in Woodstock, N.B. Clyke is serving a sentence for second-degree murder in the 2011 death of Angela Hall in Dartmouth. He is appealing his conviction. That prior murder conviction, the judge noted, meant the law required him to impose a sentence of life with no chance of parole for 25 years. However, much of Tuesday’s sentencing hearing involved the judge and lawyers discussing how the sentence could be affected by Clyke’s appeal of his prior conviction. Nova Scotia’s Court of Appeal has scheduled a two-day hearing in January, a length the judge described as “highly unusual.” The appeal was originally set to be heard in June and Ferguson said he hoped its decision would be issued before he had to sentence Clyke on the King murder. But given the conviction remains in place pending the appeal, Ferguson said they had to proceed.”We’re left to resolve our end of it as best we can,” the judge said. He suggested if Clyke’s conviction is overturned in Nova Scotia, his lawyers in that province may want to look into how it would affect his sentence in New Brunswick. Ferguson’s 110-page decision from August says evidence presented over the four-day trial in June established Clyke and King entered another inmate’s prison cell around suppertime on Oct. 6, 2022.During the 12 seconds they were in the cell, King was stabbed seven times. The savageness of the attack that can be seen in the hallway is visceral.- Justice Fred FergusonSurveillance video from outside the cell showed King emerge with what appeared to be blood on his face and shirt, followed by Clyke stabbing him three more times in the upper chest.“The savageness of the attack that can be seen in the hallway is visceral,” Ferguson said Tuesday.Ferguson said King was alive while en route to hospital, and he uttered “tell my daughter I love her” before dying. Clyke was also sentenced last week on a separate set of charges related to a May 2022 prison stabbing where the victim, Chase Spence, survived. In that case, he was sentenced to five years on both an aggravated assault charge and a charge of possessing a homemade weapon.The sentences are to be served at the same time as his life sentence for the Nova Scotia murder.ABOUT THE AUTHORShane Magee is a Moncton-based reporter for CBC News.
N.S. man sentenced for killing murderer in N.B. prison
