VANCOUVER -- If jurors conclude Robert (Willie) Pickton killed Georgina Papin, her sister wants the trial judge to know that Papin was a beautiful, generous and caring person.
"To know that she wasn't just a sex-trade worker, that she would go out of her way to help anybody," Cynthia Cardinal said.
Some family of victims of accused serial killer Robert Pickton speak to media outside the B.C. Supreme Court in New Westminster Saturday. The jury found Pickton guilty of the second degree murders of six women whose remains were found near his trailer on his family farm.
"When we needed money, she always helped. She made her money on the streets, but she was never selfish with it."
Cardinal and other relatives of the six women Pickton is accused of murdering hope to make victim impact statements if there are guilty verdicts.
A prosecutor will ask Justice James Williams to allow relatives of the women to read those statements in the courtroom, said Crown attorney spokesman Stan Lowe.
It will be the judge's decision to allow the statements to be read by the victims, or to collect them himself to read over.
Cardinal, her two sisters and her cousin were among many relatives who spent Saturday -- the eighth full day of deliberations -- waiting for news from the jurors at New Westminster Supreme Court.
Jurors are deciding whether Pickton killed: Papin, Marnie Frey, Brenda Wolfe, Sereena Abotsway, Mona Wilson and Andrea Joesbury, who disappeared from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside between 1997 and 2001.
If Pickton is found guilty of murdering Frey, her father Rick said he wants to tell the judge what it was like for him and his wife Lynn to lose his daughter a decade ago.
"I think you have to tell them how you feel, how it affected you," the Campbell River fisherman said.
Rick and Lynn Frey are raising Marnie's 15-year-old daughter Brittney, who has also written a statement.
"For Brittney, it's how she feels, searching for her identity. A young girl like that, 10 years old when she knew (her mother was dead)," Frey said.
-- CanWest News Service
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