Pig farmer’s sentence boosted
A judge in British Columbia ordered a pig farmer to serve at least 25 years of a life sentence before being eligible for parole in the slayings of six women.
Robert Pickton was convicted Sunday of second-degree murder and received an automatic life sentence. He could have been eligible for parole in as little as 10 years. Authorities said he butchered the women’s remains and fed them to his pigs.
Pickton faces 20 more murder charges for the deaths of other women, most of them prostitutes and drug addicts from a seedy Vancouver neighborhood. Guilty verdicts on all of those charges would make him Canada’s worst convicted serial killer.
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