Serial killer Peter Tobin has died after becoming unwell at the prison where he was 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.
While he has convicted of the murder of these three women, he had reportedly boasted about having killed up to 48 people.
Tobin had been hospitalised on a number of occasions in recent years, including in January and March this year.
Back in 2016, the convicted murderer was also rushed to hospital from prison after reportedly collapsing in his cell.
The year before, Tobin is thought to have been left permanently scarred after being slashed in the throat and face with a razor blade by another prisoner.
Angelika Kluk, Vicky Hamilton and Dinah McNicol were all murdered by Peter Tobin
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Tobin spent 10 years in prison for sexually assaulting two 14-year-old girls who he had plied with drink and drugs in 1993.
Four years after this release, he was sentenced to life in prison in 2007 for the rape and murder of Kluk.
His minimum sentence was increased to 30 years after he was convicted for the 1991 abduction and murder of 15-year-old Hamilton.
His third murder conviction – which was for McNicol – resulted in a whole life order.
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