Peter Tobin, a Scottish serial killer serving three life sentences for the murders of three women, has died. He was 76.
Tobin was convicted of raping and murdering 23-year-old Angelika Kluk, a Polish student, and hiding her body under the floor of a Glasgow church in 2006, according to the BBC.
He was also convicted in the 1991 deaths of Vicky Hamilton, 15, of Redding, and Dinah McNichol, 18, of Tillingham, the news outlet reported. Hamilton disappeared from a bus stop in her hometown. McNichol disappeared while hitchhiking home from a music festival in Liphook, Sky News reported.
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The bodies of Hamilton and McNichol were found in 2008, buried next to each other in the garden of Tobin’s former home in Margate, The Guardian reported.
In September 2006, Tobin was working at St. Patrick’s Church in Glasgow under an assumed name, the newspaper reported.
According to court records, Tobin attacked Kluk before raping and stabbing her to death, according to The Guardian.
After his conviction, Judge Lord Duncan Menzies called Tobin “an evil man.”
In 2015, Tobin was taken to a hospital after being attacked in prison, Sky News reported. In February 2016, he was taken to the Royal Infirmary by ambulance after reportedly collapsing in his cell, according to the BBC.
Tobin was taken to a hospital on Wednesday, The Guardian reported.
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