CA/BC/New Westminster - The brutal impact Robert Pickton’s crimes had on the lives of his victims’ families will be laid bare before a B.C. Supreme Court today before the Crown asks that the serial killer not be eligible for parole for at least 25 years.
Pickton, who was convicted on six counts of second-degree murder Sunday, will be handed a life sentence by Judge James Williams but the number of years he must serve before being eligible for parole is up to the judge who can pick a number anywhere between 10 and 25 years.
The jury declined to make recommendations when they returned a verdict in the case on after 10 days of deliberations.
Crown counsel Mike Petrie suggested Monday the Crown will seek the maximum 25 years.
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CA/BC/New Westminster - The jury in the case of a pig farmer accused of being Canada’s worst serial killer was continuing deliberations after the judge clarified a portion of his instructions.
Deliberations were suspended for about two hours Thursday following a question passed on to the judge from the jury, which focused on the possible roles of other people in the crime. The jurors finished their sixth full day of deliberations late Thursday and will resume Friday morning.
Robert ‘Willie’ Pickton went on trial in January on the first six of 26 first-degree murder charges for the deaths of women, most of them prostitutes and drug addicts from a seedy Vancouver neighborhood.
The defense suggested during the trial that others who visited the farm might have committed the murders.
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FR/Lyon - French police have arrested Nicolas Panard, 68, on suspicion of killing 18 men between 1980 and 2002. According to police, all of the victims died from blunt force trauma and stab wounds. When their bodies were later found, they were partially nude with their heads covered.
Police believe an accomplice, a man they have identified as Slim Fezzani, 43, aided Panard in the killings. Fezzani is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence on a separate murder conviction. Both men deny involvement in the murders. Formal charges will not be filed until a judge reviews the evidence against them.
RU/Moscow – Suspected serial killer Alexander Pichushkin, accused of 52 murders, fully admitted his guilt in court, his lawyer Pavel Ivannikov told Itar-Tass on Thursday.
“Pichushkin fully admits his guilt, but does not repent,” Ivannikov said.
There will be no special procedure at the trail, as the punishment envisioned for these crimes exceeds more than ten years in jail. Read More »
RU/Moscow – The Russian media has dubbed him the “Bitsevsky Maniac” after the park in southern Moscow where most of the murders were carried out.
The accused man, 33-year-old shop assistant Alexander Pichushkin, sat in a glass cage in court.
Far from denying his crimes, he claims he actually killed 61 people. Many of the victims were elderly men who got drunk with him, investigators say. Read More »
RU/Moscow – Alexander Pichushkin, 33, is set to go on trial in Moscow for the murder of 51 people. He will almost certainly insist that he killed more. He may even point to the chess diagram he drew in a notebook, each square marked with a date: 61 were filled in, three short of the entire chessboard. The police say they cannot find evidence for that number of bodies dead at Pichushkin’s hands. Read More »
CA/BC/New Westminster – A lawyer for the man accused of being Canada’s most prolific serial killer opened his defence by telling a jury they will hear evidence in the coming weeks about Robert Pickton’s limited intelligence.
Pickton is being tried in New Westminster, British Columbia, on the first six of the 26 charges of first-degree murder over the deaths of Vancouver women, most of them prostitutes and drug addicts. Read More »
CA/New Westminster/BC – A friend of the man accused of being Canada’s most prolific serial killer changed her testimony Wednesday and said she saw blood in his trailer.
Defense witness Ingrid Fehlauer was asked by defense lawyer Adrian Brooks on Wednesday morning if she had seen anything unusual in Robert Pickton’s trailer and she told the jury that it was only dirt. Read More »
AU/Victoria – Authorities in Australia say boxes of documents belonging to a convicted child killer may tie him to a series of unsolved slayings from the 1960s.
Police say they found the materials in a South Melbourne self-storage unit belonging to Derek Ernest Percy. The boxes allegedly include newspaper articles about sex crimes, photos of children, a rape-oriented video and handwritten stories of sex offenses involving abduction and torture, the Sydney Herald Sun reported. Read More »
CA/New Westminster/BC – Accused serial killer Robert Pickton described how he killed prostitutes after having sex with them and used his pigs to help dispose of the remains, a Canadian court was told on Monday.
Prosecution witness Andrew Bellwood, who lived briefly at Pickton’s farm, testified that Pickton showed him handcuffs and play-acted as he described stroking their hair and telling them everything would be okay, “it’s over now”.
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