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Inmate Martin Charest, admitted to the jailhouse murder of notorious serial killer Robert Pickton, then told the sentencing judge his selfless reason for killing a fellow inmate at a Canadian prison

‘I know that we can’t take justice into our own hands, but I killed him for the victims, not for myself’ he told the sentencing judge

Canadian prison inmate Martin Charest charged with first-degree murder for stabbing a notorious serial killer to death with a broken broomstick owned up to the jailhouse murder

Charest, 54, allegedly beat mass murderer Robert Pickton, 74, to death at the Port-Cartier maximum security prison in Quebec on May 19, 2024

Charest told the judge Pickton continued to talk “loud and clear” about his crimes, and had said “that if he were released, he would continue to commit crimes

Pickton who confessed to killing 49 women, then feeding the bodies to his pigs, was serving a life sentence following his conviction for only six of those murder in 2007

Charest told the judge Pickton continued to talk “loud and clear” about his crimes, and had said “that if he were released, he would continue to commit crimes

Charest was sentenced Thursday to life in prison, to serve a minimum of 25 years before eligibility for parole

Sentencing Justice Carl Thibault, noted the victim had been guilty of ‘the worst atrocities a person can commit towards others,’ but still had the right to serve his sentence ‘in safety’

Martin Charest has been sentenced for beating Canadian serial killer Robert Pickton [photo], to death at the Port-Cartier maximum security prison in Quebec on May 19, 2024

A prison inmate in Canada charged with beating a notorious pig farming serial killer to death with a broken broomstick is not reticent admitting to the jailhouse murder.career criminal
Career criminal Martin Charest was accused of beating Canadian mass murderer Robert Pickton to death at the Port-Cartier maximum security prison in Quebec on May 19, 2024.
Martin Charest, 54, on Thursday pled guilty to fatally assaulting a jailed serial killer Robert Pickton, 74, with a broken broom handle at the Port-Cartier maximum-security federal penitentiary.
The inmate told the court that he murdered Pickton because the serial killer continued to brag about his crimes.
A day earlier Charest appearing via video conference, before the the Sept-Îles, Quebec, courthouse alongside his lawyer, Sonia Bogdaniec, announced he planned to plead guilty to Pickton’s murder.
Charest faces a first-degree murder charge for stabbing Pickton, who was found with the end of a broken broomstick plunged into his face. Pickton died 12 days later at a hospital in Quebec.
The serial killer was serving a life sentence for six counts of murder, which he was convicted of in 2007.
Pickton had confessed to killing 49 women, bringing each of his victims to his Vancouver farm to butcher them and feed them to his pigs. Police believe he was responsible for dozens more.

Pickton who was serving a life sentence for dozens of homicides was hit in the face with the end of a broken broomstick in the common area of the prison. He was 74 at the time

Charest pleading guilty to first-degree murder during a court appearance in Sept-Îles, Que., northeast of Quebec City said: “I killed Robert Pickton for the victims,” while appearing by video from a prison in Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines, Que. 
“I know that we can’t take justice into our own hands, but I killed him for the victims, not for myself,” Charest told the court.
The attack on Pickton occurred in the common room when he was picking up his medication. Charest plunged the end of the broken broomstick into the older inmate’s face.
Pickton was airlifted to the hospital, where he was put into a medically induced coma.

Pig farmer Robert Pickton [photo], who began his crime spree ran from the late 1990s running up to the early 2000s, was serving a life sentence following his 2007 conviction for six counts of murder

Pickton was charged with 26 murders and convicted of only six murders, He’d confessed to killing 49 women, mostly prostitutes, drug addicts and those living on the fringes of society. He’d bring victims to his Vancouver farm, strangler them and feed them to his pigs

The pig farmer’s killing spree spanned the late 1990s to early 2000s. Investigation of his crime wave started more than two decades ago, when police began searching his farm in the suburb of Port Coquitlam.
It turned into a years-long investigation involving the disappearances of dozens of women from Vancouver’s streets, with many of the victims sex workers and drug addicts abandoned on the margins of society.
The remains or DNA of 33 women were found on the farm. Pickton once bragged to an undercover police officer that he killed a total of 49 women.

The remains or DNA of 33 women were found on Pickton’s farm, when police searched the property in the suburb of Port Coquitlam, Vancouver

Pickton was charged with the murders of 26 women, but only convicted in the murders of six: Sereena Abotsway, Mona Wilson, Andrea Joesbury, Brenda Ann Wolfe, Papin and Marnie Frey.
During his trial, prosecution witness Andrew Bellwood said Pickton told him how he strangled his victims and fed their remains to his pigs.
Health officials once issued a tainted meat advisory to neighbors who might have bought pork from Pickton’s farm, concerned the meat might have contained human remains.
Vancouver police were criticized for not taking the cases seriously because many of the missing were sex workers or drug users.

The depraved farmer’s crime spree ran from the late 1990s to early 2000s

The statement of facts read in court by a prosecutor details, how Charest locked himself into a room with Pickton on May 19, 2024, and assaulted him twice while guards were unable to enter.
Charest, who has a lengthy criminal record, managed to “manipulate” the door lock in order to make it difficult for prison staff to open. Then with Pickton in the room he closed the door, which could not be opened from inside. He knocked the septuagenarian to the ground, punching and then kicking him.
Blocked from entering, prison staff released gas into the room, “which [had] the effect of temporarily making Mr. Charest step back.”
The guards tried to convince Charest to leave, but he instead grabbed the broomstick and stabbed Pickton as he lay on the floor, breaking the handle in his head.
Pickton never regained consciousness, and died 12 days later in hospital on May 31, 2024, at the age of 74.
His cause of death was “blunt polytrauma,” according to the statement of facts.
Charest told the judge that Pickton continued to talk “loud and clear” about his crimes, and had said “that if he were released, he would continue to commit crimes.” 
The day he decided to kill Pickton, Charest said, the serial killer told another inmate he would have liked to have cannibalized a child who belonged to one of his victims.
“I lost control, Mr. Judge,” Charest said. “It’s regrettable, but it happened, and I don’t have any remorse,” Charest stated.
Charest was sentenced to life in prison to serve a minimum of 25 years before eligibility for parole.
At sentencing Superior Court Justice Carl Thibault noted that Charest’s victim had been guilty of “the worst atrocities a person can commit towards others,” but still had the right to serve his sentence “in safety.”