Serial killer Peter Tobin has been rushed to hospital after falling ill behind bars at HMP Edinburgh.
The Scottish murderer, who is currently serving multiple life sentences for brutally killing three young girls between 1991 and 2006, has struggled with failing health in recent years, being hospitalised in January after collapsing in Saughton.
The 75-year-old remains under the care of medics after being taken in for treatment earlier this week, as The Daily Record reports.
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Prison sources confirmed the killer, who is believed to be suffering from cancer, was taken unwell on Wednesday.
They added: "He’s still in being treated just now. He’s had quite a lot of health issues recently."
Tobin was jailed in 2008 for the murder of 15-year-old Vicky Hamilton after she disappeared from a bus stop in Bathgate, West Lothian, in 1991.
He is also serving a life term for the murder of Dinah McNicol, 18, of Tillingham in Essex.
In 2017, both of the girls’ bodies were found in the garden of a house in Margate, Kent, that Tobin moved to from Bathgate.
He also raped and killed Polish student Angelika Kluk, 23, whose body was found under the floorboards of a church in Anderston, Glasgow.
A Scottish Prison Service spokesperson said: "We do not comment on individual prisoners."
