A sex offender who raped 13-year-old girl and battered a woman with a hammer died less than a month after being diagnosed with cancer.
Brian Hunter was a prisoner at Barlinnie when he was transferred to Glasgow Royal Infirmary in the weeks before he passed away January last year, a Fatal Accident Inquiry reports this week.
The 63-year-old had a shocking record of violence and abuse. He was sentenced at the High Court in Glasgow in 1989 to life behind bars for the horrific knife-point rape of a 13-year-old in Bearsden on Christmas Day as she walked home ahead of her parents. He even robbed the sobbing child of 20p after carrying out the terrifying attack.
Hunter also stalked and robbed six other women at knifepoint and threatened to cut the fingers from one 30-year-old to get her engagement and wedding rings from her.
He was eventually released on licence after serving 17 years in prison, but it wasn't long before he was back behind bars after carrying out a terrifying hammer attack on another woman in the south side in January 2008. He was sentenced to a further four-and-a-half years in jail.
The inquiry at Glasgow Sheriff Court heard that Hunter was again released on licence in January 2016, but landed back in prison again in December 2018 after breaching the terms of his release.
A report published by Sheriff Charles Lugton on Friday explains that Hunter was diagnosed with lung cancer a year later in December 2019 and eventually transferred to hospital on Boxing Day. He died on January 8.
The inquiry - a legal requirement when someone died in custody - found that his death was an anticipated event and resulted from natural causes.
