Canadian prison officials are under fire as the nation’s most notorious serial killer has become eligible for parole.
The outraged families of the victims of Robert Pickton, now in his 70s, say they are ‘disgusted’ by the fact he has aged into parole eligibility, despite killing at least 26 women on his pig farm.
He was jailed for life without the possibility of parole for 25 years in 2007. But a Canadian law means prison sentences can only be served concurrently – at the same time – rather than consecutively – one after the other. That means Pickton is now eligible to apply for day parole and can apply for full parole from 2027.
He can apply once every two years, although the gravity of his crimes means that it’s unlikely any parole board will ever free him.
Prosecutors claim he confessed to as many as 49 murders to an undercover cop posing as a cellmate, and once quipped that he wanted to kill another woman to make it an ‘even fifty.’
Palexelsiya Lorelei Williams, the cousin of victim Tanya Holyk, told Global News CA that his potential parole makes her feel ‘sick to my stomach.’
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