Angus Sinclair, who was jailed in 1982, was also convicted of the notorious World’s End murders in Scotland, which claimed the lives of Helen Scott and Christine Eadie.
Serial killer and rapist Angus Sinclair, who was convicted of the notorious World’s End murders in Scotland, has died in prison aged 73.Sinclair spent more than half his life behind bars for killing four girls as well as for a string of sex attacks on young children.But detectives suspect he could have been behind several unsolved murders from the 1970s.
While still in prison for the sex attacks, Sinclair was given a life sentence in 2001 for the murder of Glasgow teenager Mary Gallacher in 1978.Aged 16, he pleaded guilty to culpable homicide – admitting strangling Catherine Reehill in Glasgow and dumping her body on a tenement stairway.
Christine Eadie and Helen Scott, both 17, were brutally killed after a night out at Edinburgh’s World’s End pub on October 15 1977, with their bodies discovered the following day in East Lothian.Sinclair was convicted of raping and murdering both girls with his brother-in-law Gordon Hamilton, who died in 1996, after a five week-trial in November 2014.
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