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An inmate admitted Thursday that he killed Robert Pickton in prison because the serial killer continued to boast of his crimes.
Martin Charest declared himself guilty of fatally assaulting Pickton with a broken broom handle in the federal maximum security penitentiary in the port in May 2024.
“I killed Robert Pickton for the victims,” said Charestappearing by video of a prison in Sainte-Anne-Des-Plaines, which. “I know we cannot take justice in our own hands, but I killed him for the victims, not for myself.”
Charest declared himself guilty of first degree murder during an appearance in the Court in September of September, which, northeast of the Quebec city.
Pickton was sentenced in 2007 for six second -degree murder positions, but confessed to killing a total of 49 women who attracted his pig farm near Vancouver.
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.
A declaration of facts read in the court detailed how Charest locked himself in a room with Pickton May 19, 2024, And he assaulted it twice while the guards could not enter.
CHARESTThat has a long criminal record, managed to “manipulate” the lock of the door to make it difficult for prison staff to open. Then with Pickton In the room the door closed, which could not be opened from the inside, and hit it to the ground, hitting it and then kicking it, according to the statement read by a prosecutor.
Blocked input, prison staff released gas in the room ” [had] The effect of temporarily making Mr. CHAREST step back.”
The guards tried to convince CHAREST To leave, but instead he grabbed the broom and stabbed Pickton While laying on the floor, breaking the handle in his head.
Pickton He never regained consciousness, and died 12 days later at the hospital on May 31, 2024, at the age of 74. His cause of death was “forceful Politrauma“According to the declaration of facts.
CHAREST told the judge that Pickton He continued speaking “strong and clear” about his crimes, and had said “that if he was released, he would continue to commit crimes.”
The day he decided to kill Pickton, CHAREST He said, the serial killer told another inmate that he would have liked to have cannibalized a child who had belonged to one of his victims.
“I lost control, Mr. Judge,” CHAREST saying. “It’s unfortunate, but it happened, and I have no remorse.”
CHAREST He confirmed that declaring himself guilty was his own initiative. “It’s my choice and my family’s,” he said.
Fiscal Melissa Hogan said there would be no victim impact statements in Pickton’s On behalf, he added that the serial killer had a brother who did not want to speak.
CHAREST He was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of probation for 25 years. When sentenced, the judge of the Superior Court Carl Thibault He pointed out that CHAREST The victim had been guilty of “the worst atrocities that a person can commit toward Others, “but still had the right to comply with its sentence” in security. “
The Canada Correctional Service convened an investigation board after death and issued three recommendations, even for prison to reduce accessibility to articles that are used or transformed for purposes that endanger security, according to a summary of the case published earlier this year.
