A RAPIST and road killer who spent 12 years in jail after a brutal murder bid that left his victim in a “vegetative state” has died after an incident in prison.
George Cameron – who racked up convictions for causing death by reckless driving, attempted murder and rape – hung himself at Perth Prison last Friday, sources said.
He was in intensive care at Perth Royal Infirmary until he died on Sunday evening.
It is understood Cameron had appeared in court on Friday on petition, where he was fully committed and remanded in custody on allegations he had breached a Sexual Offences Prevention Order.
Today the Scottish Prison Service said they couldn’t comment on his death until it was confirmed next of kin had been informed.
Cameron, 36, was jailed for 12 years in 2002 after he brutally attacked a 23-year-old mother in Dundee.
The woman – who a court heard was consigned to a “living death” – was left with horrific brain damage, cannot speak or feed herself and is in a “highly vegetative state”.
Cameron was released in 2010 after two-thirds of his sentence but was recalled to jail just weeks later after flouting licence conditions.
His 12-year term finished on March 14 2014 – with police serving a sexual offences prevention order (SOPO) on him before his release.
That banned him from having any contact with women and forced him to declare any “friendships or social relationships” with women he met.
However, cops were tipped off in August last year that he was in a “social relationship” with a woman.
She subsequently had her daughter taken from her care because of her friendship with Cameron.
Dundee Sheriff Court heard that when officers turned up at his flat in Dundee Cameron pulled out a knife and said he was going to “cut his throat out”.
Fiscal depute Vicki Bell told the court: “He said he had never breached his order then lifted up a large black handled kitchen knife.
“He shouted ‘I’m not going back to jail, get out of my ******* house’.
“He walked towards them with the knife at his throat.”
The thug was jailed for 41 weeks for that offence – and was released late last year.
Cameron was also previously jailed for five years in prison for causing death by reckless driving before being given six years at Reading Crown Court in 1998 for rape.
And in July 2002 he was given the 12-year sentence at Edinburgh High Court for attempted murder.
In the 2002 attempted murder case Cameron repeatedly punched and kicked his victim and locked his arm around her neck before throwing her down some stairs.
The groaning woman was found badly injured by late night revellers and was not expected to survive.
The 23-year-old mother suffered brain damage, the High Court in Edinburgh heard.
Lord Dawson told Cameron: “This was a brutal, unwarranted attack on a young woman.
“Having attacked her, you left her for dead and that is, to all intents and purposes, what she is.”
Cameron visited a pub and a nightclub and was captured on city centre CCTV walking towards the area of Foundry Lane.
He was seen to meet up with the woman and head into the lane. Patrons from a nightclub later found her lying at the bottom of stairs after being alerted by her groaning.
Eilish Angiolini, prosecuting at the original case, said: “At that point she was not expected to survive. Police believed they were dealing with a homicide.”
The victim was bleeding heavily and had a fractured skull, nose and cheekbone and suffered a brain injury.
She was also showing signs of asphyxiation and had sustained hypothermia.
Surgeons operated immediately on her to relieve pressure in her skull and to help her breathe more easily.
She has shown very little improvement in her condition since the murder bid.
The prosecutor added: “The prognosis could be described as grim.”
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