Canadian serial killer Robert Picton in prison ‘between life and death’ after attack

May 22 (UPI) — Serial killer Robert Picton remains in a critical condition and is not expected to survive after suffering an attack in prison. The Canadian killer was impaled in the head with a broken broomstick during his maximum security sentence at Port Cartier Prison.

Picton, 74, was attacked on Sunday and was between life and death on Tuesday after surgery, according to two sources, including a police source, quoted by Radio-Canada.

The prison authorities did not want to provide any information about his condition on Wednesday.

Tammy Lynn Papin, sister of Picton victim Georgina Papin, told CBC News after the attack on Picton: “Good for him, he deserves it. I don’t wish harm on anyone except – karma, you know? I really believe, you know, (The) Creator works in His own way.”

Picton’s unknown attacker was a fellow inmate who is now being held in isolation.

Picton lured more than two dozen female victims, many of them Indigenous women, to a pig farm.

Chief Marilyn Slett of the Heiltsuk Tribal Council in Bella Bella, B.C., told The Canadian Press the attack on Picton brought back painful memories.

Slett said his profile was being raised and he was being talked about: “Yet it is the women, the victims and families who are suffering today and still seeking justice for their families and their loved ones. And I can understand how people would feel about that. What happened to him.”

Picton was found guilty of six counts of second-degree murder and charged with a 21st additional murder, but all but the six counts were stayed. He was sentenced to 25 years in prison without the possibility of parole.

Investigators found DNA from 33 women at the killer’s pig farm in Port Coquitlam. Many of the victims were sex workers from Vancouver.

In 2013, families of missing women who may have been killed by Picton filed complaints with the Supreme Court of British Columbia, claiming that a botched 1997 investigation allowed the killings to continue for another five years.