Sex offender sentenced to life for student's murder

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Friday May 4, 2007
Guardian Unlimited

A convicted sex offender was sentenced to a minimum of 21 years in prison today for raping and murdering Polish student Angelika Kluk and hiding her body in a church.

A jury at the high court in Edinburgh took three-and-a-half hours to convict Peter Tobin, 60, of the sexually-motivated killing last year.

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Ms Kluk knew her killer as Pat McLaughlin, a genial handyman who helped out around the church.

In fact Peter Tobin had been jailed for 14 years in 1994 for a savage rape and sexual assault on two 14 and 15 year old girls, a case that the trial judge at the time called "the worst I have ever come across".

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The church's former priest, Father Gerry Nugent claimed that he had a short sexual relationship with Ms Kluk in 2005, and admitted he was an alcoholic. Fr Nugent was sacked by the Archbishop of Glasgow before the trial began.


Polish student Angelika Kluk. Photograph: AFP

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