The health of Edinburgh prisoner Peter Tobin is reported to have deteriorated as he remains in hospital.
The Scottish serial killer is now entering his fifth week outside of HMP Edinburgh after he was rushed for emergency treatment last month.
Suffering a broken hip following a fall in prison, Tobin has continued to be treated by medics as his health is said to be worsening, reports the Sunday Mail.
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Serving a life sentence for the murders of Angelika Kluk, Vicky Hamilton and Dinah McNicol, an image of the 76-year-old was obtained as he lay chained to his hospital bed.
Undergoing emergency surgery on his hip, the murderer was described as being on "death's door" as he remains under a guarded watch.
When approached about his illness and the suggestion he may be dying, ex-wife Cathy Wilson, 52, from Hampshire, would only describe it as “good”.
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Falkirk schoolgirl Vicky Hamilton went missing in February 1991. Her dismembered body was found 16 years later in the back garden of a house in Kent, where Tobin had moved to.
She was found alongside 18-year-old Dinah, who had also vanished also in 1991. Tobin was convicted of those two murders following his sentencing for the murder and rape of Polish student Angelika, 23, in 2006 at a church in the Anderston area of Glasgow.
Last week, retired detective David Swindle, who led the operation that caught Tobin, said he hoped the picture would prompt fresh publicity and put pressure on him to reveal his victims.
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