New prison documents released from Edinburgh's Saughton jail have revealed that serial killer Peter Tobin died in agonising pain, with a plethora of diseases that included cancer.
It has been uncovered that the Scottish murderer was battling vascular disease and a lung infection, before he died in 2022 at the age of 76.
The father of one of Tobin's victims has said that his only regret was that the monster didn't suffer in pain for longer, as reported by the Scottish Sun.
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Tobin had been moved from his cell at HMP Edinburgh - Saughton Prison - to the Royal Infirmary in the capital, before he died on October 8, 2022.
His removal from the prison was a month after he had previously been treated for a hip fracture. His death comes almost 15 years after Tobin was handed three life sentences for abusing and murdering young women.
Reports at the time of Tobin's death noted that the cause was "unascertained (pending investigations)”.
Now, documents viewed by The Scottish Sun on Sunday have now shed more light on the end of one of Scotland's most notorious serial killers.
The Scottish Prison Service documents state that Tobin died from: "Bronchopneumonia in a man with a fractured right neck of femur (surgically treated on September 9, 2022), generalised vascular disease and prostate cancer."
The details of Tobin's death were welcomed by Michael Hamilton, 72, who is the dad of one of the killer's victims - Vicky Hamilton, who died at the age of 15 in 1991.
He said: “It’s what he deserved really. He should have suffered more pain and I’d have wanted it to go on longer. I wish he’d have lived a bit longer with all that pain.”
It was reported that Tobin was given a "pauper's funeral", which was held in private and cost taxpayers less than £700 altogether. His next of kin were said to have “declined in writing to make any arrangements”.
Council chiefs arranged for his cremation at Edinburgh’s Mortonhall facility before his ashes were scattered at sea.
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