Terminally ill backpacker killer Ivan Milat is moved to intensive care unit

Ivan Milat has been transferred to intensive care as his health worsens. 

The serial killer, 74, was diagnosed with throat and stomach cancer in May and has been treated at Sydney’s Prince of Wales Hospital. 

On Wednesday morning, he was moved to the intensive care unit under heavy guard, health sources told the Daily Telegraph.   

The terminally ill serial killer (pictured) murdered several backpackers around the Sydney area

Milat, who has been in jail since 1994, was seen for the first time in a decade in May. 

He was transferred from Goulburn Supermax Prison to Prince of Wales before he was discharged and taken by corrective officers to Long Bay jail.  

The ageing killer was dressed in regulation prison greens with long white hair, while his trademark handlebar moustache was also white. His weight decreased to 64kg.

Milat was taken back into hospital in August and now requires intensive care. 

In 1996 Milat was convicted of killing seven backpackers and dumping their bodies in the Belanglo State Forest, south of Sydney, between 1989 and 1992.

He is currently serving seven life sentences, which are all to be served consecutively and without the possibility of parole.

Milat’s victims included three backpackers from Germany, another two tourists from Britain and two Australians from Melbourne.

He has spent most most of the last two-and-a-half decades in Goulburn’s Supermax prison, the strictest in Australia.

 In May, the 74-year-old serial killer was transferred from Goulburn Supermax Prison to Prince of Wales once diagnosed (Milat pictured in May)

Milat – Australia’s worst serial killer – was seen for the first time in a decade in May when he was transferred 

Other than his recent health problems, he has left the prison on just two occasions – once in 2001 for a court appearance and once in 2009 when he cut off one of his fingers.

But despite a mountain of evidence against him, he has never confessed.

He stabbed most of his victims – decapitating one whose head has never been found – and shot another 10 times in the head as if using her for target practice.

He was also questioned in 2004 about the disappearance of two nurses at Parramatta in 1980 when he was working at the nearby Granville depot of the then Department of Main Roads.

In 2006 Milat was named by police at an inquest as the person most likely to have killed a schoolgirl and her boyfriend who disappeared from northern Sydney in 1978.

Late last year, Milat wrote a 10-page letter proclaiming his innocence.