Serial killer Peter Tobin 'attacked in prison'

Serial killer Peter Tobin is said to be recovering in hospital after being attacked in prison.

The 68-year-old, from Margate in Kent, is serving three life sentences for murder at HMP Edinburgh.

The Scottish Prison Service confirmed an incident which happened yesterday had been reported to police.

Tobin is serving a life sentence for raping and murdering Polish student Angelika Kluk, 23, and hiding her body under the floor of a Glasgow church in 2006.

He was also convicted of murdering 15-year-old schoolgirl Vicky Hamilton, of Redding, near Falkirk, in 1991, and 18-year-old Dinah McNicol in the same year.

Their bodies were found 17 years later, buried in the garden of his former home in Margate.

Police examined hundreds of other unsolved murder cases to see if they could be linked to Tobin.

The operation, codenamed Anagram, was launched in 2006.