'It was sickening': Victim's relative disgusted by Robert Pickton T-shirt sold by comedy group
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The first time Lorelei Williams saw a T-shirt being sold by the Canadian comedy group Danger Cats, which depicts a grinning cartoon Robert Pickton and the caption “Over 50 Flavours of Hookery Smoked Bacon,” she couldn’t believe her eyes.
The first time Lorelei Williams saw a T-shirt being sold by the Canadian comedy group Danger Cats, which depicts a grinning cartoon Robert Pickton and the caption “Over 50 Flavours of Hookery Smoked Bacon,” she couldn’t believe her eyes.
“It was sickening. I actually felt sick to my stomach,” said Williams, whose cousin Tanya Holyk is believed to be one of the serial killler’s many victims, after her DNA was found on his Port Coquitlam farm.
Pickton was sentenced to life in prison for six murders, but told an undercover officer he killed 49 women.
“They are referring to my cousin as a flavour, and that’s disgusting. These people are sick people – they have sick minds,” said Williams. “They’re objectifying my cousin. They’re making money off of this.”
B.C. Premier David Eby is also outraged at the T-shirt.
“All I can say is how deeply disappointed I am by the idea that the lives on vulnerable women could be trivialized like this,” said Eby. “These were women with families and friends who were murdered, and then their lives ignored. And the fact that they were considered less than or less worthy, less human, was one of the reasons why Mr. Pickton was able to operate and kill them with impunity for so many years.”
The write up on the Danger Cats website claims, “By wearing this shirt, you bring a light to a grave injustice that is still on going.” But Williams doesn’t buy it.
