The death in prison of a former RAF serviceman jailed for sexually abusing six young girls is to be investigated by a sheriff.
Twisted Gordon Pinkerton, of Aberdeen, was caged for 15 years in 2013 for preying on schoolchildren across Scotland and raping two youngsters when they were just six years old.
The beast was a prisoner at HMP Dumfries and was said to have contracted suspected Covid-19 before his death at the age of 76, in April 2020.
The Fatal Accident Inquiry (FAI) preliminary hearing will take place on December 9 Dumfries Sheriff Court.
Pinkerton was jailed at the HighCourtinGlasgowfor the abuse, which began in 1963 and continued until 2011.
He turned up at the family home of one of his victims dressed in his uniform and abused her after telling her stories about the Air Force.
One victim had told the trial, at the High Court in Aberdeen, that she had attempted to kill herself because she was ashamed of what had happened to her.
Judge Lord Matthews told the fiend he had been convicted of “an appalling catalogue of abuse of vulnerable young girls”.
He said Pinkerton had maintained his denial throughout and what he did to his victims had “blighted their lives”.
Lord Matthews said the pensioner was at “high risk of re-offending”.
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