Pickton: No chance of parole for 25 years

Justice James Williams made the sentencing decision in a New Westminster court after hearing 18 victim impact statements, followed by arguments from the Crown and the defence on parole eligibility.

"Mr. Pickton's conduct was murderous and repeatedly so," said Williams, who read out the names of the six victims.

"The women who were murdered, each of them, were members of our community. They were women who had troubled lives. Each of them found themselves in positions of extreme vulnerability. They were persons who were in the ugly grasp of substance abuse and addictions, persons who were selling their bodies to strangers in order to survive," Williams said.