Scotland's first prisoner to die from coronavirus is serial sex offender John Angus.
Angus, who is in his mid 60s, was rushed from Edinburgh's Saughton prison on Tuesday after he collapsed in the shower and was discovered to have a temperature.
He died in hospital yesterday and is believed to have tested positive for the virus.
A prison source said: "Angus broke his hip when he fell in the shower but he had a temperature and obviously due to his hip he needed to be taken to hospital.
"He was in a bad way when he left the prison and it was thought then he wouldn't survive."
Angus, who was in the same hall as serial-killer Peter Tobin, was once branded branded a dangerous man who posed "a significant risk to the public in general and adult females in particular".
Angus's convictions include indecent assault, assault and robbery and a 11-year jail term for assault, robbery and abduction.
In 2012 he was found guilty of drugging a 21-year-old woman and, while she was asleep, removed her clothing and exposing himself.
The sex offender was also convicted of tying up and gagging a primary school head teacher in Easter Ross and abducting a school cleaner at the same school at knife point in 1994.
A spokesman for the Scottish Prison Service said: "We do not comment on individual prisoners."
