Pig farmer was ‘seen skinning woman on meat hook’

A FORMER friend of a Canadian pig farmer accused of killing 26 women said she saw him hang and skin one of his alleged victims on a meat hook, a court heard.

Jurors also heard Robert Pickton appeared to acknowledge his crimes during a videotaped interview as he told police they were making him out to be more of a killer than he actually was.

In the interview, played during the fourth day of the sensational murder trial in New Westminster, British Columbia, Royal Canadian mounted police officers tell Pickton they have enough evidence to put him in prison for good, so he might as well just confess.

They push him on how many women he actually killed, asking him, 10, 20 or 30? “You’re making me more of a mass killer than I am,” Pickton replies to Staff Sergeant Don Adam, the lead investigator on the case.

Though Pickton, aged 56, often denies any involvement in the murders and has pleaded not guilty, he also appears to contradict himself during the 11-hour interrogation that took place after his arrest in February 2002.

Adam tells him he did not do a good job of cleaning up the women’s blood.

“I was sloppy,” Pickton appears to concede.

Pickton is accused of luring women to his pig farm outside Vancouver, where investigators say he threw parties with alcohol and drugs.

Adam tells Pickton during the interview that took place after his arrest in February 2002 that a former friend, Lynn Ellingsen, told police that she saw the defendant hang and skin a woman on a meat hook.

Pickton is seen on the video responding with laughter and saying: “Yeah, right”.