Renowned Canadian serial killer Robert Pickton, who is serving a life term in a maximum-security jail, was attacked by another prisoner and is currently on life support.
Pickton, 74, was the victim of a “major assault,” according to the Correctional Service of Canada, which did not elaborate on the man’s condition at the time of the attack or corroborate its details.
An agency representative stated, “The safety and security of institutions is paramount and an investigation into what occurred is currently underway.” Officials had earlier declared that the perpetrator had been located and that the necessary steps were being taken.
Pickton was being imprisoned at Quebec’s Port-Cartier Institution, a maximum-security facility housing 237 men, when, at around 2:00 pm, a fellow prisoner stabbed him in the skull with a broken broom handle, according to the Vancouver Sun.
The prisoner who attacked Pickton is said to have spent time in solitary confinement for pursuing other prisoners. Afterwards, the prisoner was discharged and placed in Pickton’s unit.
After the attack, the serial killer was taken to the Hospital of the Child Jesus in Quebec City.
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Following a trial in British Columbia, the murderer was found guilty in 2007 of killing six women: Sereena Abotsway, Mona Wilson, Andrea Joesbury, Marnie Frey, Georgina Papin, and Brenda Wolfe.
He received a life sentence with no chance of release for 25 years. In February, he was qualified to submit a parole application.
On Pickton’s pig farm in Port Coquitlam, the remains of 33 women were discovered, and the serial murderer has claimed to have killed 49 victims. He was once accused of killing 21 women, but the majority of the charges were eventually dropped.
According to the Vancouver Sun, the families of several of the victims have fought against a police application intending to delete evidence connected to prosecutions against Pickton, arguing that the evidence might prove useful in the future if DNA evidence eventually links him to the deaths of the other women.
In 2016, Pickton self-published a memoir, but Amazon promptly took it down.
