Canadian serial killer convicted of six murders

British Columbia: A pig farmer accused of being Canada's worst serial killer was found guilty on Sunday of six counts of murder.

Robert Pickton gets a mandatory sentence of life in prison for the deaths of six women, most of them prostitutes and drug addicts from Vancouver.

The defence acknowledged that their remains were found on Pickton's farm outside Vancouver, but denied he was responsible for their deaths.

Prosecutors have said Pickton will be tried for the 20 other murder charges but no date has been set.

Last week, Judge James Williams reviewed the transcript of a videotape in which Pickton is heard telling an undercover police officer that he had planned to kill again.

"I was going to do one more; make it an even 50," Pickton told the officer, who had been planted in the accused killer's cell and gained his trust.