Inmate charged in prison cyanide death
New information came to light following cold case review
Last Updated: Wednesday, March 3, 2010 | 10:09 AM ET
CBC News
A Saskatchewan prison inmate has been charged with first-degree murder, 11 years after a deadly poisoning at a prison in Kingston, Ont.
Phillip Vince, 52, was arrested Tuesday at the Saskatchewan Penitentiary and charged in the death of 24-year-old Scott Barnett, said an Ontario Provincial Police release. He is to be taken to Napanee, Ont., for a court appearance Thursday.
Vince is serving a life sentence at the medium-security facility near Prince Albert, Sask., for two 1985 murders in Ontario's Durham region, east of Toronto.
Barnett collapsed and was found unconscious in the prison yard of the maximum-security Millhaven Institution on July 14, 1999. He was taken to hospital and died the next day. The cause of death was found to be cyanide poisoning.
Vince was a prisoner at the Millhaven Institution at the time of Barnett's death.
OPP Sgt. Kristine Rae said the arrest was the result of new information uncovered when investigators looked at the case in a different way following a 2006 review. She would not disclose any details, saying the case is still under investigation.
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