MONSTER Peter Tobin – considered one of Scotland’s worst serial killers – has died.
The despised intercourse beast handed away aged 76 after years of well being struggles.
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He was caged in 2008 after committing a spate of killings between 1991 and 2006.
The savage Renfrewshire-born rapist and assassin – who has by no means proven regret for his evil crimes – has died whereas serving three life sentencenes in HMP Edinburgh.
It’s understood he was affected by most cancers and had been taken to hospital a number of instances in recent times.
We beforehand advised how the dad of considered one of his victims toasted Tobin’s ill-health with a brandy.
How individuals did Peter Tobin kill?
Tobin was caged in 2008 for the murders of two teenage ladies and and younger lady in her 20s.
However cops imagine he could also be behind quite a few different younger ladies’s unsolved killings.
Vicky Hamilton
Vicky, 15, was final seen alive at a bus cease in Bathgate, West Lothian in February 1991.
She was on her method again to her house in Redding, close to Falkirk, after visiting her sister Sharon in Livingston.
Vicky was residing along with her mum Janette, who died simply two years later, aged 41.
The schoolgirl’s physique was found on the house in Margate, Kent, that Tobin had moved to simply weeks after he’d killed Vicky.
He drugged, raped and strangled her earlier than slicing her physique in two.
Vicky’s father Michael – who suffered a coronary heart assault in 2010 – has endured a long time of torment since Vicky’s loss of life.
And he advised how his 17-year look ahead to justice had taken its toll, however seeing monster Peter Tobin caged for homicide had lastly given him some peace.
Earlier this 12 months he raised a glass of brandy to toast Tobin’s failing well being – after the monster suffered a suspected stroke in jail.
Dinah McNicol
Additionally discovered within the backyard at Tobin’s Margate house had been the stays of Dinah McNicol, 18.
She vanished as she travelled house to Tillingham, Essex, from a music competition in August 1991.
Tobin had picked up hitchhiker Dinah and pal David Tremlett on the A3 close to Liphook, Hants.
After dropping off David, he drugged Dinah with painkiller Amitriptyline and strangled her.
Her 4ft 10ins physique was lastly present in 2007. She had been certain and gagged earlier than being buried within the backyard of Tobin’s former house in Margate, Kent.
Her father Ian, who died in 2014, shared a novel bond with Michael Hamilton.
They turned agency buddies and spoke on the cellphone most evening’s till Ian’s loss of life.
Angelika Kluk
In 2006, Angelika, 23, who was finding out languages at Gdansk College, Poland, was staying in a room at St Patrick’s Roman Catholic church in Glasgow on a working vacation.
She befriended Tobin, who was working as a handyman on the church after being launched from jail for sexually assaulting two 14-year-old ladies.
However unbeknown to Angelika, the stays of two teenagers who vanished in 1991 had been buried within the backyard of his former house in Margate, Kent.
On September 24, 2006, she disappeared after final being seen within the churchyard with Tobin, who was utilizing the pretend title Pat McLaughlin to keep away from detection.
5 days later, police had been scrambled to the church the place Angelika’s physique had been found.
The tragic scholar had been battered within the head repeatedly, raped, gagged and tied up after which stabbed within the chest.
Her physique was then dumped beneath the ground of the chapel in an underground chamber.
Was Tobin Bible John?
Bible John is the thriller assassin chargeable for the brutal killings of Patricia Docker, 25, Jemima MacDonald, 32, and Helen Puttock, 29.
The three ladies had been discovered murdered in Glasgow over a interval of 18 months between 1968 and 1969.
They’d all been to the Barrowlands Ballroom and had been killed in the same sadistic style.
Every lady was discovered partially bare, having been overwhelmed earlier than being strangled to loss of life.
Helen Puttock was additionally raped earlier than she was murdered.
There are many theories as to who Bible John might be and lots of assume that the thriller killer is actually Peter Tobin.
The recognized actions and elegance of the convicted serial killer have given rise to suspicions that he could also be Bible John.
Though, this concept has by no means been proved, and there’s little proof that may recommend the idea is true.
In January 2022, the father of considered one of Tobin’s victims, Michael Hamilton, stated that he would not imagine that Tobin was the notorious Bible John.
He stated that whereas he initially thought they might have been the identical individual, his opinion has modified after a chat with retired high cop David Swindle – the previous lead detective on the case of Bible John.
Mr Hamilton stated: “Bible John might be useless and has taken his secrets and techniques to the grave with him.
“That’s the top of that story, mainly.”
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