Canadian serial killer Robert Pickton dies after prison attack


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  • Saturday, 01 Jun 2024

FILE PHOTO: Robert William Pickton is shown in this undated file television image in his Port Coquitlam home. REUTERS/Global TV/ File Photo

TORONTO (Reuters) -Convicted Canadian serial killer Robert Pickton died on Friday aged 74 after he was assaulted by another inmate in a maximum-security prison earlier this month, prison authorities said.

One of Canada's most infamous mass murderers, Pickton was convicted in 2007 of killing drug addicts and prostitutes and butchering their remains at his pig farm in the Pacific province of British Columbia.

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