Evil Sinclair led vile life of abuse, rape and murder

WORLD’S End killer Angus Sinclair died alone in his cell, incontinent and bedbound, a court heard yesterday.

The monster had deteriorating health – including a number of strokes – for about a year-and-a-half prior to his death. He was 73.

Details of his death were heard at a fatal accident inquiry at Stirling Sheriff Court.

Karon Rollo, fiscal depute at the Scottish Fatalities Investigation Unit, said the FAI was mandatory because Sinclair had died at Glenochil Prison, Clackmannanshire.

She told the court: “At the time of his death, Angus Sinclair was lawfully detained in custody serving sentences of life imprisonment in respect of charges of rape and murder imposed in 1982, 2001 and 2014.”

She said Sinclair had required “assistance with personal hygiene and dressing”. Rolo added that he had “an increased frequency of falls, decreased dietary and fluid intake, increased episodes of incontinence” and a do not resusitate notice was in place.

For the last days of his life, he was confined to bed and was cared for by jail medics.

He was found “not to be breathing” in the early hours of March 11 last year and pronounced dead a short time later. Rollo

BY TIM BULGER said: “Cause of death was certified as bronchopneumonia, ischaemic heart disease and cerebrovascular disease.”

Sheriff Wyllie Robertson made a formal determination in line with the evidence.

The court heard earlier that Sinclair’s next of kin had opted not to attend or participate in the FAI, and no criticism of his care had been made.

In 2014, Sinclair was sentenced to life with a minimum term of 37 years for the murders of Christine Eadie and Helen Scott, both 17, in Edinburgh in 1977.

The teenagers were last seen alive leaving The World’s End pub. After his first trial collapsed, justice caught up with Sinclair 37 years later following a change to double jeopardy laws.

Sinclair was 16 when he carried out his first killing in 1961, raping and strangling seven-year-old Catherine Reehill. In 1982, he was jailed for life over 11 charges of rape and indecent assault.

Almost 20 years later, a cold case review revealed that his DNA had been found on Mary Gallacher, who was killed in Glasgow in 1978. He was given another life sentence for her murder.

A court insider said: “The FAI brings down the curtain on a man described by the judge who sentenced him for Christine and Helen’s murders as ‘a dangerous predator capable of sinking to the depths of depravity’. It’s not surprising his surviving family chose to stay away.”