Scotland’s most notorious serial killer and rapist, Angus Sinclair has died in prison. The 73-year old’s cause of death has not been released but over the last couple of years, his health has been declining as he had multiple strokes while he’s been incarcerated.
Sinclair was called the “World’s End Killer” as it was later discovered that he was the killer in the “World’s End Murders” case in 1977 where Catherine Eadie and Helen Scott, both 17, were raped and murdered after being at the World’s End pub in Edinburgh. The case was cold but years later DNA evidence along with tips and good ol’ fashion police work determined that Sinclair was the suspect.
Sinclair’s DNA matched the samples from the 1977 crime scene but in 2007 he was acquitted for the murders regardless. Unfortunately for Sinclair, in 2011 Scotland passed the Double Jeopardy Act that amended Double Jeopardy (a murder suspect can’t be tried twice for the same murder). He was tried a second time in 2014 and was convicted.
Sinclair was already serving time since 1982 for other rape and murder cases at the time of the World’s End murder trial. While in prison he was sentenced to life for the rape and murder of a teenage girl in 1978. He already served six years for the Culpable Homicide of his 8-year-old neighbor in 1961 when he was 16.
Police search Templeton Woods in 1980. Sinclair was linked to the murders of two women found there.
It’s believed that Sinclair was also involved in at least four other murders around the time of World’s End murders.
