A killer who battered a night watchman to death has died behind bars. William Currie, 56, passed away at Shotts Prison almost three decades after he murdered 54-year-old Robert McCurtie in a horrific attack, during which he repeatedly stamped on his head and beat him with a hard object. He was jailed for life in 1993 for the killing, and later released on licence on September 2014, but he was recalled to prison after breaching conditions.