On Wednesday, Charest announced through his lawyer that he plans to plead guilty to Pickton's murder.
The 54-year-old informed the Sept-Iles, Quebec, courthouse in Canada via video conference, alongside his lawyer, Sonia Bogdaniec, according to the CBC.
Charest faces a first-degree murder charge for stabbing Pickton with the end of a broken broomstick plunged into his face.
Pickton died 12 days later at a hospital in Quebec.
The serial killer was serving a life sentence for six counts of murder, which he was convicted of in 2007.
Pickton is believed to have killed dozens more women, bringing each of his victims to his Vancouver farm to butcher them and feed them to his pigs.
The farmer's crime spree ran from the late 1990s to early 2000s.
The attack on Pickton occurred in the common room when he was picking up his medication.
It was there that Charest plunged the end of the broken broomstick into the killer's face.
Pickton was airlifted to the hospital, where he was put into a medically induced coma, according to the outlet.
Judge Jean-Louis Lemay has scheduled the plea hearing for September 25, according to prosecutor Melissa Hogan.
Pickton's crimes first started to be uncovered more than two decades ago, when police began searching his farm in the suburb of Port Coquitlam.
It turned into a years-long investigation involving the disappearances of dozens of women from Vancouver's streets, with many of the victims sex workers and drug addicts abandoned on the margins of society.
The remains or DNA of 33 women were found on the farm. Pickton once bragged to an undercover police officer that he killed a total of 49 women.
During his trial, prosecution witness Andrew Bellwood said Pickton told him how he strangled his victims and fed their remains to his pigs.
Health officials once issued a tainted meat advisory to neighbors who might have bought pork from Pickton's farm, concerned the meat might have contained human remains.
Cynthia Cardinal, whose sister Georgina Papin was murdered by Pickton, previously said that the killer farmer's death means she can finally move on.
'This is gonna bring healing for, I won't say all families, I'll just say most of the families,' she said.
'I'm like - wow, finally. I can actually move on and heal and I can put this behind me.'
Vancouver police were criticized for not taking the cases seriously because many of the missing were sex workers or drug users.
Pickton was charged with the murders of 26 women but only convicted in the murders of six: Sereena Abotsway, Mona Wilson, Andrea Joesbury, Brenda Ann Wolfe, Papin and Marnie Frey.
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