Serial backpacker killer Ivan Milat rushed to hospital

Serial killer Ivan Milat has been taken to a Sydney hospital from Goulburn's supermax jail.

The 74-year-old has been transferred to the Prince of Wales Hospital in Randwick and it is understood he is being held in a private section of the hospital where inmates are treated.

Milat was transferred on Monday evening, 7News reported.

Convicted murderer Ivan Milat, right, leaves an appeal court in a police car.
Convicted murderer Ivan Milat was convicted in 1996 for the so-called backpacker murders. Source: AP

Milat murdered seven backpackers whose bodies were found in makeshift graves in NSW's Belanglo State Forest in the 1990s.

He was sentenced in 1996 to seven consecutive life sentences.

The former road worker also kidnapped British tourist Paul Onions but he managed to escape from Milat's vehicle.

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