Serial killer Peter Tobin has died after becoming unwell while serving three life sentences.
He was taken from HMP Edinburgh to hospital, thought to be the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, on Wednesday and subsequently died, sources said.
He was serving a life sentence for raping and murdering Polish student Angelika Kluk, 23, and hiding her body under the floor of a Glasgow church in 2006.
The killer, who was in his mid-70s, was also serving life terms for the murders of 15-year-old schoolgirl Vicky Hamilton, of Redding, near Falkirk, in 1991, and 18-year-old Dinah McNicol the same year.
Their bodies were found 17 years later, buried in the garden of his former home in Margate, Kent.
In September 2006, he had been working at St Patrick’s Church in Glasgow under the alias Pat McLaughlin.
Tobin attacked Kluk before raping and stabbing her to death then hiding her body under church floorboards.
He was found guilty and handed a life sentence at the high court in Edinburgh, with Judge Lord Menzies calling Tobin “an evil man”.
He was later arrested for the murder of 15-year-old Vicky Hamilton, who vanished from a bus stop in Livingston, near Edinburgh, in 1991. Her remains were found alongside McNicol’s. Tobin was given two more life sentences.
• This article was amended on 10 October 2022 because an earlier version said that Vicky Hamilton was at a bus stop in Redding. Hamilton was travelling to Redding, but was at a bus stop in Livingston, near Edinburgh.
