Angus Sinclair is the first person in Scotland to be retried for the same crime after an acquittal.

Today Sinclair was sentenced to a minimum of 37 years behind bars for the murders of teenage girls, the longest jail term ever handed out in the history of the Scottish legal system.

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The 69-year-old raped and killed Helen Scott and Christine Eadie, who were both 17, after a night out in Edinburgh in 1977.

He has been in jail since 1982 for a number of crimes including other rapes and murders.

Police believe that Sinclair may have killed at least six other women.

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Speaking today, Judge Lord Matthews said: “You are a dangerous predator. You have not displayed one ounce of remorse.”

Scotland's senior prosecutor, Lord Advocate Frank Mulholland QC, added that girls had suffered “terrifying, horrific and barbaric” deaths.

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Following the sentencing, the father of Helen, Morain Scott, 84, said he’d promised his wife on her deathbed that he would one day find them justice for the death of their child.

“I wonder where she would have been today. Would she be married? Would she have children? Would I have grandchildren?

“They've stolen life from two youngsters who had their whole lives ahead of them.”

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