‘Disturbing’ t-shirt with Robert Picton holding ‘hookery smoked bacon’ causes outrage
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Seventeen years since Picton was convicted, a t-shirt has surfaced showing Robert Picton 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 Picton 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 Picton with a grin and holding a slice of bacon with words that read, “Picton 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.
Picton 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.
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