A defence lawyer at the Robert William Pickton trial on Wednesday accused a key Crown witness of misrepresenting his friendship with Pickton, saying they were never close friends.

Andrew Bellwood, seen here on Monday, has been testifying all week at the trial of Robert William Pickton.
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Andrew Bellwood, who has been testifying all week, told the jury earlier that Pickton re-enacted killing prostitutes for him one night during a conversation in Pickton's bedroom.

Defence lawyer Adrian Brooks questioned why Pickton would share that story with someone he barely knew.

Bellwood testified that he and Pickton hit it off when they first met and that Pickton invited him to stay at his farm in March 1999.

He said they quickly conspired to commit crimes together. He said first they removed the good tires from a borrowed tractor-trailer and replaced them with bad.

Then, Bellwood testified, Pickton suggested they steal a load of lumber from a truck at a government weigh station.

Brooks asked why Bellwood revealed that story to the Crown for the first time a few days ago, before he was scheduled to testify.

Brooks suggested Bellwood came up with the story in order to prove he was a trusted friend of Pickton.

"Wrong," Bellwood replied.

Bellwood has admitted he didn't know Pickton well and that he'd only slept at the farm up to four times when Pickton allegedly made the stunning revelations about killing prostitutes.

Brooks also asked about Bellwood's time on the Pickton property, where Bellwood has testified that Pickton told him one night about how he lured, murdered and dismembered sex-trade workers.

Pickton accused of 26 murders

Bellwood testified he saw Pickton pull handcuffs from beneath his mattress and demonstrate how he would cuff the women from behind.

Brooks suggested that what Bellwood saw were toy handcuffs and he wouldn't know the difference between them and real cuffs.

Bellwood agreed but added that he was "110 per cent he pulled handcuffs from underneath the mattress."

He also said he believed them to be real cuffs because of their "shiny consistency."

Pickton is facing 26 counts of first-degree murder in connection with the disappearances of women from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.

He is currently being tried for the deaths of Andrea Joesbury, Sereena Abotsway, Mona Wilson, Brenda Wolfe, Marnie Frey and Georgina Papin, all women who disappeared between 1997 and 2001.

With files from the Canadian Press