Inmate charged with murder of notorious serial killer who fed his victims’ remains to ravenous pigs

A Canadian prison inmate serving a three-year sentence was hit with a new murder rap in the jailhouse broomstick beating of notorious serial killer Robert Pickton.

Martin Charest, 52, was locked up with Pickton at the Port-Cartier maximum security prison in Quebec when he allegedly attacked the gruesome convicted killer with a broken broomstick on May 19, 2024 — and now faces a first-degree murder charge, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation reported.

Pickton, who was 74 at the time of the attack, was serving a life sentence for a 2007 conviction on six counts of murder — among the dozens of victims he is believed to have killed and then served up to his farm full of pigs.

He died at a Quebec hospital 12 days after he was beaten.

Canadian authorities last month concluded an investigation into the serial killer’s death, interviewing 35 prison staffers and eventually concluding that Charest allegedly “grabbed a broomstick, broke the handle and thrust it” into Pickton’s face, the CBS said in a separate report.

He was hit with the murder charge on July 3.

The investigation determined that security measures at the prison needed to be stepped up.

“A project is underway to secure the doors of the cleaners’ storerooms in unit common rooms to better control access to cleaning supplies,” the report concluded.

Charest was sentenced to 36 months in May 2022 after pleading guilty to 13 counts of uttering threats to cause bodily harm or death, According to Montreal’s The Gazette.

Pickton was convicted in 2007 of killing drug addicts and prostitutes and butchering their remains at his Port Coquitlam pig farm in the Pacific province of British Columbia.

Investigators found the partial remains of six women on his ramshackle property, with prosecutors believing the sicko killed them during a crime spree in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

The remains or DNA of 33 other women were found on the farm, and Pickton once bragged to an undercover police officer that he killed a total of 49 women.

Pickton admitted to strangling his victims and feeding their remains to his pigs — prompting health officials to issue a tainted meat advisory to neighbors who might have bought pork from his farm.

The serial killer was also charged with an additional 20 murders, but the charges were dropped after he was sentenced to life in prison.