Tuesday, January 23, 2007 01:08 Eastern Time

NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. - Jurors at the Robert Pickton murder trialin New Westminster began watching and hearing the accused serialkiller being interviewed by police.

But the poor quality of the audio forced an adjournment while thetechnical problems were resolved. They were seeing a videotape of Pickton taken at the Surrey,B.C., RCMP detachment in February 2002 while he was being questionedabout the remains of women found on his pig farm.

Pickton is being tried on six counts of first-degree murder. Hefaces trial on an additional 20 counts later. While a crush of media and family converged on the suburbancourthouse Monday for the long-awaited start of the trial, themayhem is absent today.

Fewer family members arrived early and there were no lineups atthe security screening area.