A shocking prison attack has ended the life of Canadian serial killer Robert Pickton. The 74-year-old, serving a life sentence for six murders, was beaten with a broken broomstick inside Quebec’s Port-Cartier prison in May 2024.
Inmate Martin Charest, 54, is accused of the brutal assault. Prosecutors say he stabbed Pickton in the face with the broomstick during a confrontation in the prison’s common area. Pickton was airlifted to a hospital but died 12 days later. Charest has now told a judge he will plead guilty.
Pickton’s crimes were among Canada’s darkest. Investigators found the remains or DNA of 33 women on his pig farm near Vancouver. He once bragged about killing 49 women, many of them vulnerable sex workers. “I can finally move on and heal,” said Cynthia Cardinal, whose sister was one of Pickton’s victims.
For many families, his violent death has brought a measure of closure. But it also reopens painful memories of police failures that left victims unprotected. Do you believe justice has truly been served?
