Peter Tobin Has Died Aged 76
By Anne Mitchell
Peter Tobin. Image credit: Metro
Peter Tobin, known for the murder of three young women between 1991 and 2006 has died of cancer in a hospital aged 76.
He died on the 8th of October 2022 in Edinburgh, while serving multiple life sentences for his crimes. He was convicted of three murders, those of Dinah McNicol, Vicky Hamilton and Angelika Kluk. The police believe him to be guilty of many more attacks and murders throughout his lifetime.
Tobin was formally charged with the murder of Angelika Kluk in the autumn of 2006. He was later charged with two other murders as his past was explored by the police in an investigation named Operation Anagram.
The other two known victims of Tobin were Vicky Hamilton and Dinah McNicol. Vicky Hamilton was 15 when she was kidnapped, raped and murdered by Tobin in 1991, becoming Tobin’s first known victim.
Her father had reportedly requested Tobin’s ashes from HMP Saughton, telling the press that he wished to “flush him down the toilet”. His ashes have been scattered at sea after no family members came forward to claim him.
Vicky Hamilton was last seen at a bus station in Bathgate in 1991. Police discovered her body in Tobin’s previous garden in Hampshire, England while searching for the body of his second known victim, Dinah McNicol.
Dinah McNicol was 18 and disappeared on her way home from a music festival in 1991.
Police doubt that these three young women were Tobin’s only victims due to his age at the time of the attacks and the ease in which they took place. He never shared any further details on his crimes, despite the police interviewing him multiple times before his death this month.
It has been theorised that he could have been involved in the Bible John murders in Glasgow in the 60s. He was known to frequent the Barrowland Ballroom where all three victims were last seen, even meeting his first wife there. Police have eliminated him as a suspect in these killings.
Tobin was married three times in his life. He repeatedly showed evidence of being a cruel and abusive man, at one point stabbing his first wife, Margaret, and leaving her for dead. This resulted in a three-week-long coma and Margaret being unable to have children due to her injuries.
It was after he had split from his third wife that he was arrested for assaulting two thirteen-year-old girls in his home in Hampshire. He attempted to kill the girls by turning on his gas and leaving them both unconscious. They survived and he was imprisoned for his crimes. After this, he moved to Glasgow, where he committed his final crime, the murder of Angelika Kluk.
Tobin’s crimes left a huge impact on the lives of many people, most notably the family members of his victims.
The police detective who led the investigation into Peter Tobin’s crimes said to the BBC: “This is someone who had no respect for humanity.”
His death has likely left many families with unanswered questions as it ended Police Scotland’s attempts to reveal any more information on possible victims.
