Serial killer Peter Tobin is believed to be recovering in hospital after being attacked in jail.

The 68-year-old is serving three life sentences for murder. He was said to have been attacked in jail in Edinburgh.

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 in 2007.