By Jeremy Hainsworth

NEW WESTMINSTER, British Columbia (AP) — A police analyst testified that massive amounts of blood were found on a mattress in a mobile home on the pig farm where Robert Pickton is alleged to have killed at least 26 women.

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Meticulously taking the jury through a book of color photos taken inside the home, Royal Canadian Mounted Police Sgt. Jack Mellis said the headboard had "stains consistent with a hand transfer wipe in a downward direction."

Pickton, 56, is charged with 26 counts of murder. He denies guilt.

The blood stain analyst also told the 12-person jury that on the carpet area in the sleeping area, he found "probable cast-off drops that are shed from a moving hand."

As the trial began its fourth week, testimony focused on the sleeping platform at the rear of the dilapidated home. Mellis said it appeared that "bloodletting" had taken place on or above the foam mattress and in other parts of the mobile home.

"The stains at these location are indicative of the mattress being in a position at the time of bloodletting," Mellis said, adding that the "passive soaking is consistent with a bleeding person, bleeding continually."

Pickton is being tried on the first six of the 26 charges of first-degree murder he faces in the deaths of women from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside neighborhood — most of them prostitutes and drug addicts.

Prosecutors said DNA tests indicate that the blood in the mobile home came from Mona Wilson, the last woman reported missing from the Vancouver neighborhood in December 2001.

The woman's remains were later found on the farm in June 2002.

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