Mason murder trial

He’s been convicted of one murder, is charged with another, and Monday Jeremy Hall went to court charged with trying to arrange the murders, of two more men.

At John Sopinka Courthouse, the details of the latest court appearance for the man convicted of killing Billy Mason unfolded in the courtroom.

As you know, the Mason case was a long-standing mystery for seven years police searched for his killer, and in March of last year. Jeremy Hall was finally convicted of killing Mason with a shotgun then burning and burying his body.

That shotgun is the key to the latest charges against Hall, to go to trial. Police recovered the gun from a storage locker at a car lot in Hamilton’s east end. Monday this man Anthony Yaworski, a former employee of East End Auto testified about a long-standing, running dispute between himself, and Jeremy Hall in which hall had threatened him on more than one occasion. Yaworski testified that on one occasion, Mason arrived unexpectedly at the east end shop, and seeing Yaworski there, drew a gun, and pointed it at Yaworski’s head.
At other times, he left threatening phone messages for Yaworski, including one, that Yaworski recorded. In it, Hall denies setting fire to a trailer filled with auto parts, that belonged to Yaworski and says that all he wanted from Yaworski was ‘the respect that I deserve.’ It’s alleged that Hall later tried to hire a hit man, to kill the owners of the auto lot where the shotgun in Mason’s murder, was found.

Also on the stand Monday was Angelo Salciccioli the owner of East End Auto. He backed up testimony from Yaworski that he had never demanded payment from Hall for the trailer full of auto parts that was destroyed by fire.

The case will resume at 10am Tuesday.