An investigation report detailing the jail assault that led to the loss of life of B.C. serial killer Robert Pickton says he was assaulted by one other inmate who broke a brush deal with and thrust it into his face.
The board of investigation report launched Friday says Pickton was assaulted as treatment was being distributed within the unit he was housed in at Quebec’s Port-Cartier Establishment on Could 19, 2024.
The report says jail guards shortly intervened and satisfied the aggressor to cease the beating, however minutes later he “grabbed a broomstick, broke the deal with, and thrust it” into Pickton’s face.
The board’s report says Pickton was taken to a hospital in an ambulance, then airlifted to a different facility in Quebec Metropolis the following day and admitted to intensive care due to his crucial situation.
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Serial killer Robert Pickton is lifeless
Robert Pickton had been in hospital since Could 19 after being the goal of what Correctional Service Canada known as a “main assault” on the maximum-security Port-Cartier Establishment in Quebec. The 74-year-old B.C. man had been discovered responsible of murdering six girls within the Vancouver space, however had bragged about killing 49.
The report says Pickton died on Could 31, 2024, and investigators interviewed 35 employees members from the jail and one other establishment, discovering that inmates had free entry to cleansing instruments together with mops and brooms that weren’t saved in locked cupboards.
Pickton, 74 on the time, had been serving a life sentence since 2007 for six counts of second-degree homicide. Twenty extra counts of first-degree homicide led to a keep of proceedings in opposition to him in 2010.
He was held at a most safety establishment since his consumption evaluation in 2018, and had been incarcerated at Port-Cartier Establishment since 2018.
The improper member of the family was contacted about Pickton’s loss of life, based on the report, and investigators weren’t in a position to decide if he knew that his designated subsequent of kin had modified their contact info.
That is an artist’s drawing of Robert Pickton showing on a video hyperlink to B.C. Supreme Court docket in New Westminster on Could 25, 2005. Pickton was suspected of killing dozens of Indigenous girls at his pig farm. (Jane Wolsack/The Canadian Press)
The board made three suggestions, together with for the jail to take motion to cut back accessibility to objects which can be used or reworked for functions that jeopardize the safety of the establishment.
“A undertaking is underway to safe the doorways of the cleaners’ storerooms in unit widespread rooms to raised management entry to cleansing provides,” the report says.
The board’s report says no felony expenses had been laid and the Quebec Coroner’s workplace had not submitted any stories to the Correctional Service of Canada on the time the report was written.
One other report by an impartial observer appointed to make sure the investigation’s integrity says Pickton was “violently assaulted” by an inmate named Martin Charest.
The observer’s report says the board “carried out a meticulous, extremely skilled and neutral investigation of a delicate nature,” and praised the board for finishing the “difficult job on time.”
