Peter Tobin (born 27 August 1946) is a convicted Scottish serial killer, sex offender and paedophile now serving a sentence of life imprisonment in Edinburgh prison for the murders of three young women. Prior to his first murder conviction, Tobin served ten years in prison for a double rape committed in 1993, following which he was released in 2004. In 2007, he was sentenced to life with a minimum of 21 years for the rape and murder of Angelika Kluk in Glasgow in 2006. Skeletal remains of a further two young women who went missing in 1991 were subsequently found at his former home in Margate. Tobin was convicted of the murder of Vicky Hamilton in December 2008, when his minimum sentence was increased to 30 years and of the murder of Dinah McNicol in December 2009. Sexual assault and rape of two 14 yr old girls On 4 August 1993, Tobin attacked two 14-year old girls at his flat in Leigh Park, Havant, after they called to visit a neighbour, who was not in. They called at Tobin’s flat and asked if they could wait there. After holding them at knifepoint and forcing them to drink strong cider and vodka, Tobin sexually assaulted and raped them and stabbed one of them whilst his younger son was present. He then turned on the gas taps and left them for dead but they both survived the attack. To avoid arrest, Tobin went on the run and hid with a religious sect in Coventry, West Midlands, under a false name. He was later captured in Brighton, after his blue Austin Metro car was found there.
On 18 May 1994, at Winchester Crown Court, Tobin entered a plea of guilty and received a 14-year prison sentence. In 2004, the 58-year-old Tobin was released from prison and moved back to Paisley. Tobin has been labelled a psychopath by a senior psychologist, and by professor of criminology David Wilson, who also wrote a book on the killer connecting him with the Bible John murders of the late sixties Timeline: Peter Tobin August 1946 Peter Britton Tobin born in Johnstone, Renfrewshire, the youngest of eight children. By the age of seven he is in reform school. 1969 Marries his first wife, Margaret Mountney, who is 17. She says she was forced into marriage after he kidnapped her, and that he raped her three times, stabbed her and left her for dead. They moved to Brighton and the marriage ended when Tobin was jailed for three years for burglary and forgery. 1973 Released from prison and returns to Brighton. Meets Sylvia Jefferies, a 30-year-old nurse. They are married for three years; she says he tried to strangle her during that time. 1986 Marries 16-year-old Cathy Wilson. The couple move to Bathgate, West Lothian, in 1990, where their son Daniel is born. She fled with the boy shortly afterwards, claiming Tobin was violent towards her. 10 February 1991 Vicky Hamilton goes missing while waiting for a bus in Bathgate. 21 March 1991 Tobin moves from his home in Robertson Avenue, Bathgate, to Irvine Drive, Margate, with Vicky Hamilton’s body in the back of his van, cut in two and wrapped in a curtain and bin bags. She had been raped and murdered. 1994 Tobin is jailed for 14 years for the kidnap, drugging and violent sexual assault of two 14-year-old girls at his flat in Havant, Hampshire. May 2004 Released from prison on parole and moves to Paisley. As a registered sex offender he is obliged to report his movements, but in October 2005 he leaves without telling police; a woman claims he had attacked her. 24-29 September 2006 Tobin bludgeons, rapes and repeatedly stabs to death Angelika Kluk and dumps the Polish student’s body under the floor of St Patrick’s church in Glasgow, where he has worked as an odd-job man under the name Pat McLoughlin. October 2006 Arrested at a London hospital after a member of staff recognises the patient “James Kelly” as the focus of a public appeal, and alerts police. The Lothian and Borders cold case review team begins looking again at the Vicky Hamilton case after Tobin’s Bathgate links are pointed out. 3 May 2007 Jailed for life for the “inhuman” and “evil” murder of Angelika Kluk. 5 May 2007 Tobin is questioned by police about the Vicky Hamilton murder, after it emerges he had been living 10 miles from where she disappeared. 4 June 2007 Police search Tobin’s Bathgate home and find hidden in the rafters a dagger-like knife containing traces of Vicky Hamilton’s DNA. 21 July 2007 Tobin formally charged with the murder of Vicky Hamilton. 3 October 2007 Police search Tobin’s former home in Hampshire. November 2007 Police begin searching the garden of 50 Irvine Drive for the body of Dinah McNicol, and find Vicky Hamilton’s remains buried under a concrete patio. McNicol’s body is found shortly afterwards. December 2008 Convicted of Vicky Hamilton’s murder.