A Crown witness at the Robert William Pickton murder trial in B.C. Supreme Court in New Westminster testified Monday that Pickton talked about killing someone by injection.

Scott Chubb said the remark came up in the context of a woman Pickton had evicted from his pig farm in suburban Port Coquitlam.

Scott Chubb testified Monday that Robert William Pickton described how someone could be killed by an injection of windshield wiper or radiator fluid.
(CBC)

Chubb testified that Pickton said a syringe full of windshield wiper or radiator fluid could be injected to kill someone.

He also told the jury Pickton said police likely wouldn't detect it if the dead person was a junkie with track marks.

Chubb is the person who tipped off police about the presence of guns on the Pickton property in 2002 — information that led to a search of the farm, which within a few months uncovered human remains.

Earlier in the trial, the jury had been told that police paid Chubb $1,450 for information about Pickton and firearms.

The 39-year-old Chubb admitted in court Monday that he was in constant trouble with the law as a younger man. More recently, he said, he has successfully battled substance abuse, but hasn't used hard drugs in about five years.

He testified he met Pickton when he got a job in 1993 with the accused's brother, Dave Pickton, driving a truck, working on and off for the Picktons for about eight years.

He told the court he knew the farm well, and had been inside all the buildings.

Pickton is facing 26 counts of first-degree murder in connection with the deaths of women from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. Six of the charges are being dealt with at the current trial. The other 20 charges are expected to be dealt with at a subsequent trial.