The man who killed one of Canada’s most notorious serial killers inside a federal penitentiary in Quebec last year pleaded guilty to the homicide on Thursday. A judge at a courthouse in Sept-Îles heard the guilty plea from Martin “Spike” Charest, 52, who appeared by videoconference.

Charest is currently at a federal penitentiary in Ste-Anne-des-Plaines, located north of Montreal. When he was connected to the courtroom, he first said: “Do you want a pizza or not?” It appeared to be an attempt at a joke for his defence lawyer Sonia Bogdaniec.

Charest then proceeded to plead guilty to first-degree murder. He attacked Pickton inside the Port Cartier Institution, a maximum security federal penitentiary 850 kilometres northeast of Montreal, on May 19, 2024.

Pickton was taken to a hospital in

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