2002 photo of B.C. serial killer Robert Pickton on security video after his arrest on murder charges. An application to destroy evidence from his trial is on hold do to the COVID-19 pandemic Photograph By GLACIER MEDIA FILES
Group’s claims are “confusing, oblique, rambling and essentially mischievous,” judge finds
by Jeremy Hainsworth
August 14, 2020
A B.C. group wants serial killer William Pickton’s trial evidence preserved as evidence while alleging Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and others committed “crimes of genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and aggression.”
Calling themselves the Chilcotin National Congress, the group applied to preserve evidence for future cases.
The application came as part of RCMP applications to dispose of Pickton trial evidence. Up to 200,000 pieces of evidence are currently in storage at “a significant ongoing cost,” Justice James Williams said in his August 13 decision.
Pickton was convicted of second-degree murder in the deaths of six women at his Port Coquitlam pig farm. Twenty other charges were stayed. He told an undercover cell plant he had killed 49 people.
Norman Vincent Traversy and Zsuzsanna Holland applied for intervenor status.
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