This story, about letters Robert Pickton sent to a California pen pal while he was awaiting trial, was published Sept. 2, 2006.
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The letters show the author believes he will be exonerated and is highly critical of police; is following the legal proceedings closely and plans to write a book; and has religious leanings, quoting two Bible passages in one letter. The Sun sent a copy of the envelope from the Feb. 26 letter to Canada Post, confirming the postage stamp — which came from a stamping machine, as opposed to the type that is licked and the other Canada Post codings put on the envelope are not forgeries.Article content
Ardith Watson, the warden of the pretrial centre, confirmed mail written by prisoners is sent to a mail centre, where it is stamped and sent along to Canada Post for delivery. Loudamy wrote three times to Pickton as Mya Barnett, a woman down on her luck but determined to survive. “I like what the judge has said in coart ,” he said, “that I want to give this con-demn-man a half decent-trial and I smiled and said to myself my father also was a condemned man of no wrongdoing, and for that I am very proud to be in this situation for they are the biggest fools that ever walked the earth, but I am not worried for every thing on earth will be judged including Angles,” the Feb. 26 letter says.
“By the time date of Augest 29th 2006 I will have been in hear at N.F.P.T.C. for a total of — 1, 650 days to date, of which is just over 4 1/2 years in a-waiting for trial,” the letter says.Article content “The short way is to put surveillance-cameras and to see who is doing all this. For then they well know the truth and to have the right people behind bars . . . they would save many other lives while the criminals that are in-volved still at large but no-body-cares for they got me as a fall-guy-any-ways.”Article content
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