Serial killer jailed over World’s End murders in Scotland dies in prison

SERIAL KILLER and rapist Angus Sinclair, who was convicted of the notorious World’s End murders in Scotland, has died in prison aged 73.

The Scottish Prison Service confirmed he died overnight on Monday at HMP Glenochil in Alloa, Clackmannanshire.

Sinclair spent more than half of 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.

A statement from the prison service said: “Angus Robertson Sinclair, 73, a prisoner at HMP Glenochil has died.

“He was convicted at Edinburgh High Court on August 31, 1982. Police Scotland have been advised and the matter reported to the Procurator Fiscal.

“A Fatal Accident Inquiry will be held in due course.”

His conviction in 2014 for raping and murdering two teenage girls in Edinburgh in 1977 resulted in him receiving the longest minimum sentence ever imposed by a Scottish court.

He was ordered to spend a minimum of 37 years in jail for the crimes .

But he was already in jail – having been locked up since 1982 for sexually assaulting girls between the ages of six and 14.

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.

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.