‘Disturbing’ T-shirt with Robert Pickton holding ‘hookery smoked bacon’ causes outrage
Global News
Seventeen years since Pickton was convicted, a T-shirt has surfaced showing him with a grin and holding a slice of bacon.
A T-shirt featuring Canada’s most notorious serial killer is prompting outrage.
For years, Robert Pickton killed women on his pig farm in Port Coquitlam before he was arrested.
Seventeen years since he was convicted, a T-shirt has surfaced showing Pickton with a grin and holding a slice of bacon with words that read, “Pickton Farms, over 50 flavours of hookery smoked bacon.”
“This is so disgusting,” said Palexelsiya Lorelei Williams. “For them to refer to my cousin as a flavour … that’s why I wanted to puke because they’re mocking it.”
Her cousin, Tanya Holyk, was just 21 when she disappeared.
Evidence against Pickton included body parts, multiple bones found in pigsties and several DNA samples found throughout the property.
Pickton was originally charged with 26 murders, but 20 of them were stayed, including Holyk’s.
In December 2007, he was convicted of six counts of second-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 25 years.