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Kill Total: |
3+ ? |
Kill place: |
Margate, Kent |
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Kill date: |
24 September 2006
10 February 1991
1991 |
Victim(s): |
Angelika Kluk
Vicky Hamilton
Dinah McNicol |
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Date of Birth: |
27th August 1946 |
Marital Status: |
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AKA: |
Pat McLaughlin |
Occupation: |
Handyman |
1993, Tobin attacked
two 14-year old girls who were babysitting his son at his
home in Havant, Hampshire. After holding them at
knifepoint, he sexually assaulted and raped them. To avoid
arrest, Tobin went on the run and hid in a church retreat
in Warwickshire under a false name, but he was recognised
and arrested after appearing on the BBC Crimewatch
programme.
In 1994, at Winchester Crown Court, Tobin pleaded guilty,
and received a 14 year prison sentence. He was released in
2004, and moved to Paisley, Scotland.
May 2007 he
received a further 30-month sentence for breaching the
terms of the Violent and Sex Offender Register.
September 2006,
Tobin was working as a church handyman at St. Patrick's
Roman Catholic Church, Glasgow. He was using a false
name, "Pat McLaughlin" to avoid detection, as he was
still on the Violent and Sex Offender Register, but not
compliant with it, following the 1994 convictions for rape
and assault.
Angelika Kluk was a 23 year old student from Skoczow, near Krakow in Poland. She was staying at the
chapel house of St Patrick's Church, where she worked as a
cleaner to help finance her studies at Gdańsk University.
She was last seen alive in the company of Peter Tobin on
24 September 2006, and is thought to have been attacked by
him in the garage attached to St Patrick's chapel house.
She was beaten, raped, and stabbed to death, then her body
was concealed in an underground chamber beneath the floor
near the confessional in the church. Forensic evidence
suggested that she was still alive when she was placed
under the floorboards. Police found her body on 29
September, and Tobin was arrested in London shortly
afterwards. He had been admitted to hospital under a false
name, and with a fictitious complaint.
March 2007
The six-week trial
took place at the High Court in Edinburgh,
between 23rd March and 4th May 2007
Tobin denied raping and murdering Ms Kluk and claimed she
had consented to have sex with him.
Tobin was found guilty of
raping and murdering Angelika Kluk and was sentenced to
life imprisonment, to serve a minimum of 21 years. In
sentencing Tobin, Judge Lord Menzies described him as "an
evil man".
15th November 2007 Tobin was charged with the murder of
schoolgirl Vicky Hamilton whose remains were found more
than 16 years after she went missing.
Skeletal remains of two young women who went missing in
1991 were found at his former home in Margate, Kent. In addition, Tobin
is facing investigation for other unsolved cases of murder
dating back to the 1960s.
December 2008,
Tobin was given a life sentence for the murder of Vikki
Hamilton, and ordered to serve at least 30 years.
The jury took less than two and a half hours to reach a
verdict.
There is speculation
that Tobin may have murdered as many as ten women across
the UK.
Dinah McNicol's body was
found in a previous house belonging to Tobin.
The other cases under speculation include the three
Bible John murders in the late 1960s in
Glasgow, Jessie Earl, aged 22, from Eastbourne, who was
last seen alive on 15 May 1980, and whose skeletal remains
were found in bushes at Beachy Head in April 1989.
Patsy Morris, aged 14, from Feltham, found strangled on
Hounslow Heath, West London in June 1990.
1st September
2008, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) served a
summons on Tobin's solicitors, formally accusing him of
Dinah McNicol's murder.
The trial began in
June 2009. The trial was postponed and the jury
discharged in July 2009, the judge ruling that Tobin was
not fit to stand trial pending surgery.
Monday 14th December
2009, Tobin stands trial at Chelmsford Crown Court
for the murder of Dinah McNicol.
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