Serial killer and rapist Angus Sinclair has been jailed for a minimum of 37 years for the murders of two teenagers.
Sinclair raped and strangled 17-year-olds Helen Scott and Christine Eadie after a night out at the World's End pub on Edinburgh's Royal Mile in 1977.
The 69-year-old is the first person in Scotland to be retried for the same crime after an acquittal, following a change in the double jeopardy law.
Police believe he also killed at least six other women and girls.
The 37 year sentence - which comes 37 years after Sinclair murdered the two teenagers - is the longest ever handed out by a Scottish court, and means the killer would be aged 106 before he could apply for parole.
christine Eadie and her friend Helen Scott were killed in October 1977
Na wa o only one person see crimes
1959 - stole an offertory box from a Glasgow church, aged 13
1959 - housebreaking charge
1961 - committed lewd and libidinous practices on an eight-year-old girl. Sentenced to three years' probation
1961 - convicted of killing Catherine Reehill, aged seven. Sentenced to 10 years in prison. Serves six years
1970 - marries trainee nurse Sarah Hamilton (Gordon Hamilton's sister) and has a son two years later
1977 - thought to have murdered six women within seven months. Frances Barker, 37, Hilda McAuley, 36, Agnes Cooney, 23, and Anna Kenny, 20, all from Glasgow and Christine Eadie and Helen ScoChristit from Edinburgh
1978 - murdered 17-year-old Mary Gallacher in Glasgow
1980 - illegal possession of a .22 calibre revolver
1982 - pleaded guilty to rape and sexual assault of 11 children aged six to 14. Sentenced to life in prison
2000 - cold case review of 1978 Mary Gallacher murder
2001 - convicted of the murder of Mary Gallacher
2007 - trial for murders of Christine Eadie and Helen Scott collapses
2014 - retrial finds Sinclair guilty of World's End murders
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