Serial killer Robert Pickton brutally attacked in prison

The Canadian serial killer who lured more than two dozen female victims to his pig farm is clinging to life after being brutally attacked in prison, officials said.

Robert Pickton, 74, was in a segregated intervention unit at the maximum-security Port-Cartier prison when he was stabbed in the head with a broken broom handle Sunday evening, the Vancouver Sun reported.

On Tuesday, Pickton was in critical condition and was not expected to survive.

Pickton’s 51-year-old attacker – whose name was not released – had spent time in solitary confinement because of previous attacks on other inmates, a source told the news outlet.

“Facilities safety is a top priority and an investigation into what happened is ongoing,” the Correctional Service of Canada said in a statement to the Post.

The organization was unable to provide an update on Pickton’s current condition.

Pickton was convicted of six counts of second-degree murder in 2007 and sentenced to life in prison with a maximum parole sentence of 25 years.

He was also charged with murdering 21 other women, but those charges were stayed, the Vancouver Sun said.

In total, investigators found the DNA of 33 women at Pickton’s pig farm in Port Coquitlam – many of them sex workers who disappeared from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside in the 1990s and early 2000s.

Picktono is also said to have once bragged to an undercover police detective that he had killed up to 49 women over time.

Grisly rumors about Pickton’s pig farm circulated in the Vancouver area for years before he was finally arrested in 2002 – and authorities were criticized for initially not taking the spate of missing women seriously.

“This news actually gives me a little closure for myself,” Cynthia Cardinal, whose sister Georgina Papin was one of Pickton’s official victims, told Postmedia about the killer’s injuries.

“I had all these feelings today. I know it’s Georgina. And I know she’s happy,” she added, calling Pickton’s injuries “karma.”

“It was hard for me not knowing. I would hope that we get news about Janet at some point because so many people said that’s where she ended up,” Gagnon told the Vancouver Sun.

Gagnon said she wasn’t surprised to hear about the attack on Pickton.

“Because a lot of serial killers – people want to get them because of what they did to the women, especially Robert Pickton when I think about how he murdered the women. It was so brutal,” she explained.

With post wires