Mr. Bellwood's Testimony:Pickton's Play

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Andrew Bellwood testified Pickton acted out the killing of women.

I don't want them to feel I am using their daughter's name. I just want to do what I feel respects the dead and their families.

By Citizen Correspondent Trisha Baptie

Date Posted: 07/18/07

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Andrew Bellwood, who took the stand this week, lived at the Pickton property for some time in 1999. He claims Pickton re-enacted murders, showing him how he killed women. Bellwood seemed honest and frank about his drug usage; in no way did he strike me as having the obnoxious pride of Scott Chubbs, and thus far, that alone seems to make him a more credible witness and someone you want to hear more from. Nonetheless, defence focused in on holes in Bellwood's story and drug use as a way to discount his credibility.

Bellwood has admitted to a history of drug abuse. It was in a Port Coquitlam treatment center that he would meet a man named Ross - Pickton's friend Gina Houston's boyfriend at the time. It was through this relationship that Bellwood was introduced to Pickton and how he came to live on the farm property for some time in early 1999.

One night while watching TV together, Pickton brought up the subject of going out to get a prostitute. Bellwood declined and Pickton would then tell Bellwood what he allegedly did to prostitutes.

According to Bellwood's testimony, in a sort of re-enactment, Pickton reached under the bed and pulled out handcuffs, a belt and a wire. He then described having sex with the prostitutes "doggy" style, pretending to stroke a woman's hair and explaining how he would tell them he was going to handcuff them. "It's going to be OK, everything will be over soon," Pickton would allegedly say to the women before he then strangled them.

Bellwood then said Pickton told him that he would take the women out to the slaughterhouse and "bleed and gut them." Pickton also allededly commented on how much blood the women had in them and how "you wouldn't believe how much blood a person has in them." Pickton then allegedly described how he would then feed the body to the pigs, and what the pigs did not eat, he would put in the barrels that go to the rendering plant.

There was silence in the court. In my mind, however, I was having a loud argument with myself about whether or not I could get up an walk out of the courtroom. I really wanted to, but I did not want anyone to see how much this had affected me.