NEW WESTMINSTER (Canada): Accused serial killer Robert “Willie” Pickton lamented that he never moved away from the family farm where police allege he killed 26 women and butchered their remains, a Canadian court heard on Monday.

“I was supposed to stay on the farm till I hit the age of 40... Now I’m 53 and now it’s buried me. My name is mud,” Pickton told an undercover police officer hours after his arrest in 2002.

The jury at his murder trial in New Westminster watched a videotaped recording of the conversation, which took place in a jail cell with a police officer who was posing as a suspect arrested for attempted murder.

Prosecutors say that on a section of the tape not yet viewed by the jury, Pickton talks of having killed 49 women and planning to kill one more. Pickton, now 57, has pleaded not guilty, and prosecutors have not described any of his comments as a confession.

He has been charged with 26 murders, although this trial deals with only six of the charges. The court divided the case into two trials to make it easier for the jury.

Pickton tells his cell mate that he was a pig farmer who did not drink or do drugs, and could not believe he was facing murder charges. He also complained that the police search had kicked him off the farm where he had lived for almost his entire life.“I’m screwed, tattooed, nailed to the cross...” he complains, saying police want to charge him with 50 murders.

Police say Pickton lured drug addicts and prostitutes to his farm in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, near Vancouver.—Reuters