{"id":45308,"date":"2025-07-07T06:33:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T06:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/45308\/"},"modified":"2025-07-07T06:33:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T06:33:12","slug":"prison-assault-that-led-to-b-c-serial-killer-robert-picktons-death-detailed-in-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/45308\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison assault that led to B.C. serial killer Robert Pickton\u2019s death detailed in report"},"content":{"rendered":"

Open this photo in gallery:<\/a><\/p>\n

Robert Pickton, right, shown in a 2006 court sketch, died in May, 2024, after being attacked by a fellow inmate.JANE WOLSACK\/The Canadian Press<\/p>\n

An investigation report detailing the prison assault that led to the death of B.C. serial killer Robert Pickton says he was assaulted by another inmate who broke a broom handle and thrust it into his face. <\/p>\n

The board of investigation report released Friday says Pickton was assaulted as medication was being distributed in the unit he was housed in at Quebec\u2019s Port-Cartier Institution on May 19, 2024. <\/p>\n

The report says prison guards quickly intervened and convinced the aggressor to stop the beating, but minutes later he \u201cgrabbed a broomstick, broke the handle, and thrust it into\u201d Pickton\u2019s face. <\/p>\n

The board\u2019s report says Pickton was taken to a hospital in an ambulance, then airlifted to another facility in Quebec City the next day and admitted to intensive care because of his critical condition. <\/p>\n

The report says Pickton died on May 31, 2024<\/a>, and investigators interviewed 35 staff members from the prison and another institution, finding that inmates had free access to cleaning tools including mops and brooms that weren\u2019t kept in locked cabinets. <\/p>\n

At the time of the incident, Pickton was 74 and had been serving a life sentence since 2007 for six counts of second-degree murder. Twenty additional counts of first degree murder led to a stay of proceedings against him in 2010. <\/p>\n

Who was Robert Pickton? A timeline of events leading to the serial killer\u2019s conviction and death<\/a><\/p>\n

He was held at a maximum-security institution since his intake assessment in 2018, and had been incarcerated at Port-Cartier Institution since 2018.<\/p>\n

It says after Pickton died, the wrong family member was contacted about his death and investigators were not able to determine if he knew that his designated next of kin had changed their contact information. <\/p>\n

The board made three recommendations, including for the prison to take action to reduce accessibility to items that are used or transformed for purposes that jeopardize the security of the institution.<\/p>\n

\u201cA project is underway to secure the doors of the cleaners\u2019 storerooms in unit common rooms to better control access to cleaning supplies,\u201d the report says. <\/p>\n

The board\u2019s report says no criminal charges had been laid and the Quebec Coroner\u2019s office had not submitted any reports to the Correctional Service of Canada at the time the report was written. <\/p>\n

Another report by an independent observer appointed to ensure the investigation\u2019s integrity says Pickton was \u201cviolently assaulted\u201d by an inmate named Martin Charest. <\/p>\n

The observer\u2019s report says the board \u201cconducted a meticulous, highly professional and impartial investigation of a sensitive nature,\u201d and praised the board for completing the \u201cchallenging job on time.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: Robert Pickton, right, shown in a 2006 court sketch, died in May, 2024,…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":45309,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2148,2138,671,104,2132,692,2147,2131,2143,2144,2140,2133,2130,79,407,746,2142,2137,2159,2134,2135,454,2139,1165,728,2149,108,2154,2155,50,2157,2152,2156,2150,2153,2136,85,2146,80,2145,2151,1458,158,1164,2141,1154,107,2158],"class_list":{"0":"post-45308","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-alberta","9":"tag-arts-news","10":"tag-bc","11":"tag-breaking-news","12":"tag-breaking-news-video","13":"tag-british-columbia","14":"tag-canada","15":"tag-canada-news","16":"tag-canada-sports","17":"tag-canada-sports-news","18":"tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","19":"tag-canadian-breaking-news","20":"tag-canadian-news","21":"tag-economy","22":"tag-education","23":"tag-environment","24":"tag-federal-government","25":"tag-foreign-news","26":"tag-globe-and-mail","27":"tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","28":"tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","29":"tag-government","30":"tag-life-news","31":"tag-lifestyle","32":"tag-local-news","33":"tag-manitoba","34":"tag-national-news","35":"tag-new-brunswick","36":"tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","37":"tag-news","38":"tag-northwest-territories","39":"tag-nova-scotia","40":"tag-nunavut","41":"tag-ontario","42":"tag-pei","43":"tag-photos","44":"tag-political-news","45":"tag-political-opinion","46":"tag-politics","47":"tag-politics-news","48":"tag-quebec","49":"tag-sports-news","50":"tag-technology","51":"tag-travel","52":"tag-trudeau","53":"tag-us-news","54":"tag-world-news","55":"tag-yukon"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}