A research report detailing the assault of the prison that led to the death of BC Robert Pickton serial killer says he was attacked by another inmate who broke a broom and threw it in his face.
The Research Board report published on Friday says that Pickton was attacked since the medications were being distributed in the unit in which he was in the Portier Institution of Quebec on May 19, 2024.
The report says that the prison intervened quickly and convinced the aggressor to stop the beating, but minutes later “he grabbed a broom, broke the handle and pushed it” on Pickton’s face.
The Board’s report says that Pickton was taken to a hospital in an ambulance, then transferred by plane to another installation in the Quebec city the next day and admitted intensive care due to his critical condition.
Robert Pickton had been at the hospital since May 19 after being the objective of which Canada’s correctional service called an “important assault” in the portier of Maximum Security port in Quebec. The 74 -year -old BC had been convicted of murdering six women in the Vancouver area, but had boasted to kill 49.
The report says that Pickton died on May 31, 2024, and the investigators interviewed 35 prison staff and another institution, discovering that inmates had free access to cleaning tools, including trapelers and brooms that did not remain in closed cabinets.
Pickton, 74 at that time, had been fulfilling life imprisonment since 2007 for six second degree murder positions. Twenty additional first -degree murder charges led to a suspension of procedures against him in 2010.
It was held in a maximum security institution since its admission evaluation in 2018, and had been imprisoned in Port-Cartier Institution since 2018.
According to the report, the wrong family member was contacted about the death of Pickton, and the researchers could not determine if he knew that his designated relatives had changed his contact information.
The Board made three recommendations, even for the prison to take measures to reduce accessibility to articles that are used or transform for purposes that endanger the security of the institution.
“A project is being carried out to ensure the doors of the warehouses of the cleaners in the common rooms to better control access to cleaning supplies,” says the report.
The Board’s report says that criminal charges had not been submitted and that the Quebec Forensic Office has not submitted any report to Canada’s correctional service at the time the report was written.
Another report from an independent observer designated to ensure that the integrity of the investigation says that Pickton was “violently attacked” by an inmate called Martin Charest.
The observer’s report says that the Board “conducted a meticulous, highly professional and impartial investigation of a sensitive nature,” and praised the Board to complete the “challenging work on time.”
