Alert over ‘threats to dying rapist’

SECURITY had to be stepped up at a hospice after threats were made to a dying rapist, a whistleblower claimed.

Robert Clyde, who had been moved from Edinburgh’s Saughton jail last month, was guarded round-the-clock by G4S staff at a Marie Curie centre in the city’s Frogston.

The 73-year-old died on Sunday after suffering from a terminal brain illness.

A whistleblower claimed the sex offender was the subject of a death threat and had been notified by police.

One guard was at reception and two guards were in his room, estimated to cost £2300 a week.

The whistleblower said: “I heard the security were expecting some kind of retribution against him and he received a warning from police about a death threat.”

Clyde was jailed for nine years in 2013 for raping a woman and sexually assaulting four young girls over a 40-year-period.

Police said the death was not being treated as suspicious.