Serial killer Peter Tobin died after falling ill in prison, where he was serving a three-year sentence.
He was taken from HMP Edinburgh to the hospital, believed to be the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, on Wednesday and later died, sources said.
He is serving a life sentence for raping and murdering Polish student Angelika Kluk, 23, and then hiding her body on the floor of a church in Glasgow in 2006.
The killer, who is in his 70s, is also serving a life sentence 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.
Tobin’s victims (left – right) Angelika Kluk, Vicky Hamilton and Dinah McNicol
Their bodies were found 17 years later, buried in the garden of his old home in Margate, Kent.
Over the years, police have looked into hundreds of other unsolved murders to see if they could be related to Tobin.
That operation, codenamed Anagram, began in 2006 and ended in 2011.
In 2010, two addresses in Sussex – Marine Parade in Brighton and Station Road in Portslade – both former homes of the Scottish killer, became the subject of the police search for more than a week.
