Gaunt and frail: Time running out for Ivan Milat to confess to backpacker murders
Serial killer Ivan Milat has spent his first night in the Sydney prison where he's likely to die, following a stint in a nearby hospital where he was diagnosed with terminal cancer.
Time is now running out if the backpacker murderer is to confess and give some closure to the families of his victims.
Gaunt and bespectacled, Milat was dressed in prison greens in handcuffs and ankles shackled when he was brought to a white four-wheel drive in a wheelchair on Tuesday.
His white hair is balding and the killer's infamous handlebar moustache has also turned completely white.
Milat arrived at Long Bay jail on Tuesday afternoon in the back of the 4WD after a 15-minute trip from Prince of Wales Hospital in Randwick where he was diagnosed with oesophagus and stomach cancer.
Milat will be detained at the prison hospital within the Long Bay Correctional Complex.
The frail 74-year-old was transferred in a convoy of two identical Nissan Patrols while a police helicopter hovered overhead.
Milat abducted his victims in the same type of 4WD in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
It's believed he sold the vehicle shortly after the backpackers' bodies were discovered in NSW's Belanglo State Forest.
Milat on Tuesday sat in a cage in the back of one of the vehicles, which had tinted windows.
The serial killer was initially taken from Goulburn's supermax jail to Prince of Wales on May 13 for medical tests.
Milat's nephew, Alistair Shipsey, has said his uncle's condition is "very bad" and he may only have a couple of weeks to live.
Milat was found guilty in 1996 of murdering seven backpackers whose bodies were found in makeshift graves in the 1990s.
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