Robert Pickton, a infamous Canadian serial killer who fed his victims’ stays to his pigs on his farm around Vancouver, has died after remaining assaulted in prison.
The Correctional Service of Canada stated in statement that Pickton, 71, died in medical center on Friday, subsequent the assault on 19 May possibly by a different inmate of Port-Cartier Establishment in the province of Quebec.
A 51-year-aged inmate was in custody for the assault on Pickton, a police spokesman, Hugues Beaulieu, stated previously this month.
Robert “Willie” Pickton was convicted of six counts of second-degree murder and sentenced to everyday living in prison in 2007, with the utmost parole ineligibility time period of 25 many years, soon after remaining charged with the murders of 26 women of all ages.
Law enforcement started searching the Pickton farm in the Vancouver suburb of Port Coquitlam additional than 22 a long time in the past in what would be a years-extensive investigation into the disappearances of dozens of women.
The continues to be or DNA of 33 gals, many picked up from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, ended up observed on Pickton’s farm in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia. He when bragged to an undercover police officer that he killed a total of 49 women.
In the course of his trial, prosecution witness Andrew Bellwood said Pickton explained to him how he strangled his victims and fed their continues to be to his pigs. Well being officers at the time issued a tainted meat advisory to neighbors who may possibly have bought pork from Pickton’s farm, involved the meat could possibly have contained human remains.
Cynthia Cardinal, whose sister Georgina Papin was murdered by Pickton, claimed she was “overwhelmed” with happiness when she been given a textual content concept previously this thirty day period with the news that he had been attacked. She identified as it “karma”.
Vancouver police had been criticized for not getting the instances critically mainly because quite a few of the lacking have been intercourse staff or drug users.
Canada’s correctional assistance claimed it was conducting an investigation into the Pickton attack.
“The investigation will study all of the info and situations surrounding the assault, together with no matter if insurance policies and protocols were being followed,” the provider mentioned in the statement.
“We are aware that this offender’s situation has had a devastating effect on communities in British Columbia and across the place, including Indigenous peoples, victims and their households. Our thoughts are with them,” the statement reported.
Pickton’s verified victims were being six: Sereena Abotsway, Mona Wilson, Andrea Joesbury, Brenda Ann Wolfe, Papin and Marnie Frey.
At the time of Pickton’s sentencing, the British Columbia supreme courtroom justice James Williams said it was a “rare situation that adequately warrants the utmost period of time of parole ineligibility obtainable to the court”.