By Jenny Noyes
Australia's most notorious serial killer, Ivan Milat, remains in a secure annex at Sydney's Prince of Wales Hospital but may be transferred to intensive care after his condition deteriorated overnight.
On Friday, Milat, 74, was moved to the public hospital from the hospital at Long Bay jail where he had been receiving treatment for advanced oesophageal cancer.
Milat was diagnosed with cancer in May and, after spending an initial stint in the secure annex at Prince of Wales, was taken to the hospital at Long Bay where he was receiving chemotherapy.
A spokeswoman for Corrective Services NSW said on Wednesday "a 74-year-old inmate is receiving medical treatment at Prince of Wales Hospital. He was transferred to the hospital last Friday, 11 October. Appropriate security is in place."
A source familiar with Milat's condition denied reports he had already been transferred to the intensive care unit, but said he "took a bad turn" overnight and may be moved there from the hospital's secure annex in the coming hours.
Nine News reported Milat's brother George had a blunt message for Ivan: "Good riddance."
Milat was jailed in 1996 and is serving seven life sentences for the brutal murders of seven backpackers whose bodies were dumped in the Belanglo State Forest between 1989 and 1993. He is suspected of involvement in a number of other unsolved cases.
Police and victims advocates have been hoping for a deathbed confession, but Milat has continued to protest his innocence from hospital, including in a handwritten letter sent to The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age in August.