US, February 23, 2016 – A memoir published by a former Canadian pig farmer and serial killer has been withdrawn from circulation just few hours after it was put on sale.
Robert Pickton, who has confessed to 49 killings, sneaked his memoir, ‘Pickton: In His Own Words’ out of prison and was self-published by the author while in prison through Outskirts Press, based in Colorado and put for sales online by Amazon.
Pickton was convicted in 2007 for murdering six women.
Amazon was forced to withdraw the book from circulation following wide protest from governments and individual who feel that the criminal should not be allowed to make profit from criminality.
The BBC reported that Officials in British Columbia had earlier vowed to prevent Pickton, who says he is innocent, from profiting from sales of the memoir, entitled Pickton: In His Own Words.
“It is not right that a person who caused so much harm and hurt so many people could profit from his behaviour,” the province’s Minister for Public Safety, Mike Morris said in a statement.
Canadian Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale told the BBC than an investigation has been launched into how Pickton’s manuscript was smuggled out of the maximum security Kent Institution prison where he is being held.
In the book, the serial killer wrote that he was innocent and framed for the killings by Canadian police, the Vancouver Sun reported.
