The Canadian serial killer who lured more than two dozen female victims to his pig farm is clinging to life after being violently attacked in prison, officials said.
Robert Pickton, 74, was in an isolated intervention unit at the Port-Cartier maximum security institution when he was speared in the head with a broken broom handle Sunday evening, the Vancouver Sun reported .
As of Tuesday, Pickton was in critical condition and is not expected to survive.
Pickton’s attacker, 51, – whose name has not been released – had spent time in solitary confinement for having previously attacked other inmates, a source told the media.
“The safety and security of the institutions is paramount and an investigation into what happened is currently underway,” Correctional Service Canada told The Post in a statement.
The organization was unable to provide an update on Pickton’s condition.
Pickton was convicted of six counts of second-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison with a maximum period of parole ineligibility of 25 years in 2007.
He was also charged with the murder of 21 other women, but those charges were stayed, the Vancouver Sun explained.
In total, investigators found the DNA of 33 women – many of them sex workers who disappeared from downtown Vancouver in the 1990s and early 2000s – on Pickton’s hog farm in Port Coquitlam .
Pickton also allegedly once bragged to an undercover police officer that he had killed as many as 49 women.
Gruesome rumors about Pickton’s pig farm circulated in the Vancouver area for years before he was finally shut down in 2002 – and authorities were criticized for not taking the wave of missing women.
“This news actually gives me some closure,” Cynthia Cardinal, whose sister Georgina Papin was one of PIckton’s official victims, told Postmedia of the killer’s injuries.
“I had all these feelings today. I know it’s Georgina. And I know she’s happy,” she added, calling Pickton’s injuries “karma.”
“It was hard for me not knowing. I hope one day we hear from Janet because so many people have said she ended up there,” Gagnon told the Vancouver Sun.
Gagnon said she was not surprised to learn of the attack on Pickton.
“Because a lot of serial killers, people want to stop them because of what they did to women, especially Robert Pickton, when I think about how he murdered women. It was so brutal,” she said.
With post wires
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