For the second time in as many days, a teen witness testifying at a Halifax murder trial has recanted statements he made about what happened immediately before a 16-year-old student was fatally stabbed last year.
The 14-year-old witness initially told youth court Tuesday that he saw the 17-year-old accused pull out a knife and then drop its sheath minutes before Ahmad Maher Al Marrach was stabbed during a fight inside a parking garage near the Halifax Shopping Centre.
The witness, whose identity is protected from publication, said he was afraid of what would happen next.
“I thought he was trying to stab me, so I backed off,” he said.
The Crown and defence agree that the teenager on trial did not stab Al Marrach, but the Crown has told Judge Elizabeth Buckle that the evidence will show he is guilty of second-degree murder because he planned a group assault that …