Peter Tobin

50 Irvine Drive, Margate, UK, where serial killer Peter Tobin lived from 1991 to 1993, his victims Vicky Hamilton and Dinah McNicol were found buried in the garden here.

Peter Britton Tobin (born August 27, 1946 in Johnstone , Renfrewshire ) is a British sex offender and serial killer . He was convicted of murder for the first time in 2007, and later two other murders that he had committed 16 years earlier could be proven. He is also considered the prime suspect in a well-known series of murders in Glasgow.

Private life

Peter Tobin was born in the small Scottish town of Johnstone, the youngest of seven children, and spent his childhood and adolescence in correctional institutions. Between 1969 and 1990 he was married three times and had three children, one of whom died shortly after birth. Between 1966 and 1969 he lived in Glasgow , then until 1990 in Brighton , then until 1993 in Margate and finally in Havant to be close to his youngest son. Tobin had been convicted of theft and forgery of documents until 1970.

Series of murders

In 1984 a woman filed a complaint with the police because her 8-year-old daughter alleged that her neighbor Peter Tobin had sexually assaulted her. However, after prolonged questioning and medical examination, the investigation was discontinued for lack of evidence.

On February 10, 1991, Tobin kidnapped 15-year-old student Vicky Hamilton at a bus stop in central Bathgate , strangled her and buried the body on his property. On August 5, 1991, he also kidnapped 18-year-old Dinah McNicol, who was on her way home from a concert in Liphook. He also strangled her and buried the body in the garden of his estate.

On August 4, 1993, two 14-year-old girls were in his Havant apartment to take care of his son as he coerced, abused, raped and then turned on the apartment's gas taps to kill them. The girls survived and filed a complaint, whereupon Tobin was arrested after a short escape in Coventry , where he had joined a religious community under a false name. On May 18, 1994, he pleaded guilty to rape and assault in court and was sentenced to 14 years' imprisonment, but was released early in 2004 and moved to Paisley .

In 2005 a seriously injured woman appeared to the police and claimed to have been attacked by Tobin with a knife. However, since he could not be found, an arrest warrant was issued.

Without notifying the police of his change of residence, as provided for his probation, he had fled to Glasgow and worked there from September 2006 under a false name as a craftsman for the Catholic St. Patrick's Church in the Anderston district. There he raped and murdered the 23-year-old student Angelika Kluk on September 24, 2006. Kluk worked as a cleaner in the church to finance her studies and was only found five days after her death in a chamber on the floor near the confessional. Tobin had seriously injured her with knife wounds and locked her alive in the chamber, where she finally succumbed to her injuries.

Convictions

When the investigation revealed that Tobin had also worked in the church, an intensive manhunt was launched, whereupon he was arrested after a short time in London while visiting a hospital. After a six-week trial, during which his guilt was proven, he was sentenced to life imprisonment for rape and murder in May 2007, and he was also given another 30 months imprisonment for violating probation requirements. The minimum term of detention was set at 21 years.

In June and November 2007, the remains of Vicky Hamilton and Dinah McNicol were finally discovered during a search of his former property in Margate. On December 2, 2008, he was sentenced again to life imprisonment with a minimum imprisonment of 30 years for the murder of Vicky Hamilton. For the murder of Dinah McNicol, he was finally sentenced to life imprisonment on December 16, 2009, with which Tobin was never released.

Suspicion of series of murders in Glasgow

Peter Tobin is also suspected of being the long-sought serial killer Bible John , who murdered three young women between February 1968 and October 1969 on their way home from the Barrowland Ballroom dance club in Glasgow. Tobin was living in Glasgow at exactly this time, and he is very similar to a phantom image made at the time. The three victims found also have brunette hair like the previously proven victims and were also strangled. According to a witness, the perpetrator is said to have quoted sentences from the Bible, which only corroborates the suspicion, since Tobin is considered very religious, and the series of murders stopped after he moved in 1969.

Web links

• Timeline: Peter Tobin
• Where are the victims of the serial offender "Bible John"? . Retrieved December 3, 2010.