CANADA: Alleged serial killer Robert Pickton told an employee on his pig farm he would kill women and feed their remains to his animals.

A court heard Pickton, who is accused of murdering 26 Vancouver prostitutes, said he killed women by putting them on a bed, handcuffing them and strangling them.

Employee Andy Bell told police: "He told me he'd kill them and take them into the barn and bleed them and give them to the pigs."

The jury trying the 57-year-old watched a video of police showing Pickton a recording of Mr Bell making the accusation.

Pickton, who is only of trial for six murders, responded: "Oh, bull! That guy is out to lunch."

As he was quizzed by police after being charged with two murders in 2002, Pickton said: "I want to die."

He added: "If I can, I'll take my life for any one of those people, just to have them alive."

But he insisted he was innocent and had never met the murdered women.

Prosecutors claim Pickton, whose father was born in Britain, killed the women and "butchered" their remains.

Investigators who went to his farm in Port Coquitlam, near Vancouver, found the severed heads, hands and feet of three of his alleged victims and bones and teeth from the others.

The skulls, two of which were discovered in a freezer, had been sawn in half vertically.

After police spent almost two years scouring the 17-acre farm for evidence, health officials warned neighbours that pork products from the farm might have contained human remains.

On the first day of the trial, it was claimed Pickton told an undercover officer he'd killed 49 women and planned one more to "make it an even 50".

The trial in New Westminster continues.