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The killer of Polish student Angelika Kluk has had a heart attack in prison. | The killer of Polish student Angelika Kluk has had a heart attack in prison. |
Peter Tobin, 60, who was jailed for life in May for the rape and murder of Miss Kluk in September 2006, was taken ill in Peterhead Prison on Wednesday. | Peter Tobin, 60, who was jailed for life in May for the rape and murder of Miss Kluk in September 2006, was taken ill in Peterhead Prison on Wednesday. |
The Scottish Prison Service confirmed a prisoner had been taken to hospital. His condition at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary is not known. | The Scottish Prison Service confirmed a prisoner had been taken to hospital. His condition at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary is not known. |
The body of Miss Kluk, 23, who was beaten and stabbed to death, was found under the floor of a Glasgow church. | The body of Miss Kluk, 23, who was beaten and stabbed to death, was found under the floor of a Glasgow church. |
During Tobin's trial for Ms Kluk's murder, proceedings were halted for two days in April after he became ill and underwent tests at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. | |
The six-week trial heard how he had befriended the student while she worked as a cleaner at St Patrick's Church in the Anderston area of the city. | |
Tobin, who used the name Patrick McLaughlin, was employed as an odd job man at the church. | |
'Evil man' | |
Angelika's bound, gagged and badly beaten body was discovered on 29 September hidden under the floorboards of the church. | |
When forensics linked Tobin to the young woman, he denied raping and murdering her and claimed that she had consented to having sex with him. | |
The jury of eight women and seven men took just under four hours to convict him. | |
At the High Court in Edinburgh, judge Lord Menzies described him as " an evil man" and said that he should serve a minimum of 21 years. | |
After the trial it emerged that Tobin had been jailed for 14 years in 1994 for a sex attack on two teenage girls in the Portsmouth area. | |
At his trial at Winchester Crown Court, the judge described it as "an appalling incident, I think the worst I have ever come across". | |
Police have been investigating Tobin in relation to a number of other incidents. |