Arrest in Niagara jail murder

Police have laid murder charges in connection to an incident at the Niagara Regional Detention Centre in August.

Two men are facing second degree murder charges in the death of a fellow inmate at the Detention Centre in Thorold.

Police say the inmate, 46 year old Kelvin Sawa from Port Colbourne, was taken to hospital and died a few days later.

He was in custody at the Niagara Detention Centre on charges of sexually assaulting a 14 year old boy.

Ssawa was killed before he could be released on bail.

The Niagara Major Crime Unit hasn’t said how the injuries were inflicted.

Thirty-seven year old Jeremy Hall and twenty-eight year old Cale Rose have been charged with second degree murder.

Both appeared in court Thursday in St. Catharines.

Jeremy Hall is also accused in the murder of twenty-six year old Billy Mason from Hamilton.

Police say Mason was confronted at his apartment in February of 2006, held at gunpoint and driven to a country road where hall allegedly shot him.