{"id":14167,"date":"2025-07-22T00:39:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T00:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/14167\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T00:39:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T00:39:12","slug":"inmate-charged-with-murder-in-death-of-b-c-serial-killer-robert-pickton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/14167\/","title":{"rendered":"Inmate charged with murder in death of B.C. serial killer Robert Pickton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\tBy Staff<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Canadian Press\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tPosted July 21, 2025 5:00 pm<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tUpdated July 21, 2025 5:10 pm\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t1 min read\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>A federal inmate has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of serial killer Robert Pickton last year.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1753129028_943_70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Martin Charest, 52, was charged on July 3 for allegedly attacking Pickton at Quebec\u2019s Port-Cartier maximum security prison.<\/p>\n<p>Pickton died in hospital on May 31, 2024, 12 days after he was assaulted, but no charges were laid at the time.<\/p>\n<p>An investigation report released earlier this month revealed Pickton was assaulted by a fellow inmate who broke a broom handle and thrust it into his face, and a separate report by an independent observer named Charest as the suspect.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-video__image\" alt=\"Click to play video: 'Fatal prison assault of serial killer Robert Pickton included broken-off broom handle: report'\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/AM_PICKTON_ASSAULT_REPO_OM01EDJG.mp4.00_00_04_12.Still001.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"   data-\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t0:34<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFatal prison assault of serial killer Robert Pickton included broken-off broom handle: report\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Pickton was convicted in 2007 on six counts of second-degree murder but was suspected of killing dozens more women at his pig farm in Port Coquitlam, B.C.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Charest will appear in court on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2025 The Canadian Press\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Staff The Canadian Press Posted July 21, 2025 5:00 pm Updated July 21, 2025 5:10 pm 1&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2169,43,44,12924,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-14167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-crime","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-robert-pickton-attacked","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}