Notorious serial killer Robert Pickton has reportedly been hospitalized with critical injuries after a vicious prison attack in Quebec.
This is after what Correctional Services of Canada is calling a major assault on a prisoner Sunday afternoon at the maximum security Port-Cartier Institution.
“The injured inmate was evaluated and transported to an outside hospital to receive treatment,” the CSC said in a written statement on Monday. “The Sûreté du Québec is presently investigating the incident. The assailant has been identified and the appropriate actions have been taken.”
Corrections has not named the prisoner but a number of media outlets cite sources who identify him as former Port Coquitlam pig farmer Robert “Willie” Pickton.
Pickton, who is 74, is serving a life sentence after his 2007 conviction for the murder of six women.
He was arrested in 2002 during a major investigation centering on the disappearance of dozens of vulnerable women, mostly from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.
He was originally charged with 27 killings but 21 of the counts were stayed and never made it to trial.
The DNA of an additional six women was later found on his Port Coquitlam property.
Pickton was recently in the headlines as he became eligible to apply for day parole on February 22, prompting outrage from victims’ families and politicians like MP Kerry-Lynne Findlay.
“Most of these women and their families will never receive the justice they deserve,” said the Conservative MP for South Surrey-White Rock. “Monsters like him should only leave prison in a body bag.”
CityNews has reached out Corrections Services Canada for confirmation, along with Pickton’s Edmonton-based lawyer Ian Runkle.
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