Serial killer Robert Pickton attacked in prison
Convicted murderer Robert Pickton suffered a brutal attack at a maximum security prison on Sunday, according to reporting from Kim Bolan and Lori Culbert in the Vancouver Sun.
A statement from Correctional Services of Canada did not name Pickton but confirmed a prisoner at Port-Cartier Institution in Quebec was hospitalized following a “major assault.”
Pickton was transferred to the Quebec prison in 2018.
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The Vancouver Sun article stated Pickton was on life support after a prisoner who had attacked other inmates speared Pickton in the head with a broken handle.
Speaking to CBC in 2018, Joyce Lachance said she was told the decision to transfer Pickton from the Kent Institution in Agassiz to Quebec was based, in part, on: “better protections.”
Lachance’s niece Marnie Frey was one of the six women Pickton was convicted of murdering. Frey went missing in 1997 when she was 24 years old.
Pickton was initially charged with murdering 26 women. However, the Crown eventually stayed 20 charges based on the fact Pickton had already been sentenced to Canada’s harshest criminal sentence.
Pickton became eligible to apply for day parole in February, prompting dozens of family members and friends of his victims to hold a vigil at the former site of Pickton’s Port Coquitlam pig farm.
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