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A vile killer jailed for the brutal murder and butchering of a teenage mum who 'looked at him as a father figure' has died behind bars.
Michael McArthur was found dead by prison guards at HMP Dumfries on Monday, April 11.
The 74-year-old was caged for life at the High Court in Edinburgh in 2004 after being found guilty of murdering and then dismembering the body of 19-year-old Amy Anderson two years prior.
Tragic Amy had been a promising college student in her hometown of Dumfries, before giving birth to a baby girl at the age of 18.
But after becoming addicted to heroin, she found herself on the streets.
Reports from the time of McArthur's trial stated he had taken his victim in and let her sleep in his shelter, becoming a 'father figure' to her when she had nowhere else to go.
At the time of her murder, it was also speculated that the teenager was pregnant with her second child.
Her torso was found on the banks of the River Leven in Alexandria, Dunbartonshire, in May 2002.
Her pelvis was found more than a year later in November 2003 in a pond near the river.
Amy's head, arms and legs have never been found.
Speaking during his trial, McArthur said: ''I last saw her the Friday before she went missing. I was talking to her round at the Salvation Army. She told me she was pregnant. She said she was about nine weeks."
Jurors heard how evil McArthur suffocated the teenager and then went on to burn parts of her body after dissecting it.
During the trial, temporary judge Alastair Stewart QC described the killing as "horrific" and "brutal".
He told McArthur: "You were convicted by the jury of a quite appalling murder.
"It is bad enough, as you did, to deprive a young woman of her life, but you compounded the crime by what can only be
An obese Scots mum who tipped the scales at 18 stone managed to shed a whopping seven stone with a little extra motivation from 'beyond the grave'.
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