The families of three victims of Peter Tobin will feature in a new BBC Scotland documentary. The Hunt for Peter Tobin is a two-part series which examines the brutal crimes of Tobin and features interviews with loved ones and friends of those he killed.
The programme will follow the three separate investigations into young women who had seemingly vanished and how they eventually revealed the existence of a serial killer targeting young women across the UK for more than three decades.Tobin was convicted for the murders of Polish student Angelika Kluk, 23, 15-year-old Vicky Hamilton and 18-year-old Dinah McNicol, between 2006 and 2007.The sex offender, who is suspected over a number of other killings, died after falling within his cell at HMP Edinburgh in October 2022.
A Fatal Accident Inquiry heard that Tobin died from pneumonia while suffering from prostate cancer and vascular disease.Vicky Hamilton had been waiting for a bus on a snowy winter night in 1991 when the teenager disappeared.
Her case became one of Scotland’s biggest missing persons investigations. That summer, Dinah McNicol vanished after hitchhiking home from a music festival in Kent.
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