Serial killer Peter Tobin lies chained to hospital bed as desperate families issue final plea

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Handcuffed to a bed, his emaciated body hidden by a hospital gown, serial killer Peter Tobin lies seriously ill. The notorious murderer, who has cancer, fell and broke his hip and is now refusing food and medication.

Tobin, 76, who is serving a whole life term for the murders of Angelika Kluk, Vicky Hamilton and Dinah McNicol, is wasting away.But, suspected of dozens of other killings, these families have begged him to come clean about his victims.Nicola Stork, whose teenage sister Louise Kay disappeared from Eastbourne in 1988 and is strongly believed to be another of Tobin’s victims, said: “I don’t want Tobin to die because it means we might never know but I’ve got no sympathy if he’s in pain.“If he dies without giving us information about Louise, then it probably means we’ll never know what happened to her or where she is.“I hope he will confess something or the police can go and speak to him to get it out of him.”And the elderly parents of art student Jessie Earl, 22, whose body was found in 1989 after she went missing in 1980, believe Tobin is their daughter’s killer.Tobin, who is also suffering from cancer, is under constant guard in hospital.He had emergency surgery but is too sick to be returned to his cell at HMP Edinburgh.Our exclusive picture, taken last week, is the first image in 14 years of Scotland’s worst serial killer.Tobin is said to be “frail, weak and at death’s door”.A source said: “That’s been said about him before but he seems to hang on.“To the unsuspecting eye, he’s just a sick old man in hospital but the killer’s face is still there.”Retired detective superintendent David Swindle, who caught Tobin and led the task force looking at his other crimes, said: “If there’s any humanity there, Tobin