A CONVICTED armed robber who died in custody could not have been saved, a fatal accident inquiry has determined.

Robert Edgar, who was serving a two-year sentence at Barlinnie for knife possession at the time, died aged 52 at Glasgow’s Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in December 2018.

He was convicted of possession of a blade at Renfrewshire Council HQ, in Paisley, in June 2018 and while in prison his health deteriorated.

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Edgar gained notoriety in 1989 when he was handed a 12-year sentence for shooting Natalina Felletti, then 18, as she served ice cream in Ferguslie Park.

A probe into his death heard Edgar, who suffered from hepatitis C and seizures,was found shaking in his cell by medical staff on October 2018.

He was kept in hospital under supervision and was diagnosed with viral encephalitis.

Edgar was given CPR in the morning of his death as he had stopped breathing on two occasions.

Glasgow Times: Edgar was caught with a blade in Renfrewshire House, in Paisley Edgar was caught with a blade in Renfrewshire House, in Paisley

He resumed breathing but continued to deteriorate and was pronounced dead that afternoon.

The inquiry was told Edgar had previously taken two ‘fits’ while in custody. 

He frequently refused to take his seizure medication and get treatment for his Hepatitis C but was given regular blood tests.

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Sheriff Daniel Kelly determined “there were no precautions which could reasonably have been taken which might realistically have resulted in the death being avoided.”

The cause of death was stated as “necrotising meningoencephalitis and epilepsy, Hepatitis C infection with liver cirrhosis.”