The infamous Scottish serial killer and paedophile Peter Tobin has died, believed to be from cancer, aged 76 following a series of health problems.
Reports suggest he died while chained to his bed after becoming too frail to leave his cell.
The murderer was known to have killed three women but is thought to have slaughtered many more.
Tobin 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.
Tobin had worked in the church as a handyman, which is how police identified him as a suspect.
He is thought to be one of the UK's worst ever serial killers.
The killer 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.
He had previously been convicted of raping two 14-year-old girls in 1993.
Vicky's family said upon hearing the news of Tobin's death: 'He does not deserve anymore of our family's thoughts.'
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