Families’ dismay as serial killer convicted of lesser charge

ROBERT “Willie” Pickton has been convicted of the serial killings of six women whose bodies were butchered like animals in his farm’s slaughterhouse.

But the jury convicted Pickton of a lesser charge of second-degree murder, not the first-degree murder charge he originally faced.

The verdict still carries a sentence of life in prison, but the lesser charge could make it easier to get parole.