Scots serial killer Peter Tobin has been rushed to hospital after falling ill behind bars at HMP Edinburgh.
The 75-year-old remains under the care of medics after being taken in for treatment earlier this week.
The murderer, who is currently serving life sentences for brutally killing three young girls between 1991 and 2006, has struggled with failing health in recent years.
We previously told how he was whisked into hospital after being found collapsed in his cell back in January.
Prison sources confirmed the killer, who is believed to be suffering from cancer, was taken unwell on Wednesday.
They added: “He’s still in being treated just now. He’s had quite a lot of health issues recently.”
Tobin was jailed in 2008 for the murder of 15-year-old Vicky Hamilton after she disappeared from a bus stop in Bathgate in 1991.
He is also serving a life term for the murder of Dinah McNicol, 18, of Tillingham in Essex.
In 2017, both of the girls’ bodies were found in the garden of a house in Margate, Kent, that Tobin moved to from Bathgate.
He also raped and killed Polish student Angelika Kluk, 23, whose body was found under the floorbaords of a church in Anderston, Glasgow.
A Scottish Prison Service spokesperson said: “We do not comment on individual prisoners.”
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