Serial killer Peter Tobin, who buried two of his victims at a property in Margate, has died.
Tobin was serving three life sentences
He was taken from HMP Edinburgh to hospital on Wednesday after becoming unwell. He had been diagnosed with cancer in 2018. He died today (October 8).
He served a whole life order at HM Prison Edinburgh for the murders committed between 1991 and 2006. Police believe Tobin was responsible for the deaths of other young women and girls.
In 2007 he was sentenced to life with a minimum of twenty-one years for the rape and murder of Angelika Kluk in Glasgow in 2006.
Remains of two teenagers, Vicky Hamilton and Dinah McNicol,. who went missing in 1991 were subsequently found in the garden of his former home in Irvine Drive, Margate in 2007.
Tobin was convicted of the murder of Vicky Hamilton in December 2008, resulting in his minimum sentence being increased to 30 years, and of the murder of Dinah McNicol in December 2009, resulting in a whole life order.
The killer was in his mid-70s.
