The health of serial killer Peter Tobin has deteriorated in the last few days.
He’s now entering his fifth week in hospital after emergency treatment for a broken hip last month. The 76-year-old, who also has cancer, had suffered the injury in a fall in prison and has remained in a Scottish NHS facility ever since.
The Sunday Mail has learned Tobin’s condition has worsened and he has not been returned to HMP Edinburgh, where he was serving a whole life sentence for the murders of Angelika Kluk, Vicky Hamilton and Dinah McNicol.
A source said yesterday: “He’s not getting any better, in fact, his condition is getting worse.”
The state of Tobin’s health was revealed by the Sunday Mail last week after we obtained a picture of him in his hospital bed where he was described as being at “death’s door”. He’d fallen at HMP Edinburgh, broken his hip and was rushed for emergency surgery where pins were inserted.
He is under guard in hospital. Last night, the Sunday Mail approached his ex-wife Cathy Wilson to ask about his illness and the suggestion that he was dying. The 52-year-old, from Hampshire, would only describe it as “good”.
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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