Defence's Closing Arguments: Day Two

They talked about how Pickton seemed to parrot to the undercover officer who was planted in his cell what the investigators had told him.

Speaking for the Defence, Adrian Brooks said the number “50” that Pickton came up with (as to how many women he killed) was in fact the number he had been told he would be charged with in the interrogation room, and suggested he was also trying to get some “jail house respect,” which he had been told by investigators he would need, as he would be spending the rest of his life in jail.

Mr. Brooks showed time and again how in his jail cell with the undercover officer Pickton used exact phrases the investigators had used, even copying little phrases from the undercover officer in the cell.

Mr. Brooks pointed out how when the undercover officer made disparaging and belittling comments about women, Pickton never took the bait, but seemed to completely ignore it.

Mr. Brooks spoke about the many, many lies police told Pickton during his interrogation, which the police are fully are allowed to do - Lies like the statement that women's blood was found everywhere and how they had a dilldo with Mona Wilson's and Pickton's blood on it, as well as satellites hovering over the farm, which was untrue.

It was also noted how he repeatedly asked for his female companion Dinah Taylor, whose absence as a witness in this case speaks just as loudly as her words probably would have.

Mr. Brooks said that the forensic evidence just does not point to Pickton having killed these women.

It is hard to be sure at what the evidence in this case points to , but I look forward to discussing it after a verdict has been handed down.