Johnstone-born serial killer Peter Tobin passed away after battling a number of illnesses, it has been revealed.

Tobin, 76, had cancer, vascular disease, and a lung infection when he died on October 8, last year. 

He had previously been treated for a hip fracture about a month before his death, reports The Scottish Sun. 

The Gazette:

Tobin was serving a whole-life jail sentence after being convicted of three murders in 2007. He raped and stabbed Polish student Angelika Kluk, 23, at a church in Glasgow's Anderston in 2006.

He was also nailed for killing Vicky Hamilton, of Falkirk, and Dinah McNicol, 18, of Essex, both in 1991.

Tobin died from “Bronchopneumonia in a man with a fractured right neck of femur (surgically treated on September 9, 2022), generalised vascular disease and prostate cancer,” according to Scottish Prison Service (SPS) documents.

Michael Hamilton, the father of one of Tobin’s victims, Vicky, said that Tobin’s miserable end is what he deserved, and he should have suffered more pain.

He told the newspaper: “It’s what he deserved really.

“He should have suffered more pain and I’d have wanted it to go on longer.

“I wish he’d have lived a bit longer with all that pain.”

Tobin was given a “pauper's funeral” and was cremated at Edinburgh’s Mortonhall facility before his ashes were scattered at sea.

His next of kin declined in writing to make any arrangements.

An SPS spokesman said: “We do not comment on individual prisoners.”