A failing to provide the necessaries of life charge against a correctional officer in connection with the death of Elgin Middlesex Detention Centre inmate Adam Kargus has been dropped.
An OPSEU official, who represents correctional officers at the facility, confirmed that Gregory Langford is no longer facing the charge.
"It's great news," says Dominic Bragaglia, president of Local 108 of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union.
Langford, along with guard Leslie Lonsbary and Stephen Jurkus, an operational manager, were all charged with the same offence in March 2014.
The case against Lonsbary and Jurkus is back in court on Monday.
Kargus was beaten to death in his holding cell on October 31, 2013. His body was found the next morning in the communal showers.
