No Tobin crimes at Brighton house, police reveal (From The Argus)

No Tobin crimes at Brighton house, police reveal

8:16am Thursday 29th July 2010 in

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Police have ruled out any crimes linked to serial killer Peter Tobin after a search of his former Brighton home was called off.

A 15-day search of the former Seafront Hotel in Marine Parade, Brighton, where the convicted murderer lived during the late 1980s, has now ended. Search teams and forensic archaeologists were investigating whether Tobin killed while living in Brighton and Hove between the 1960s and 1980s.

However Sussex Police today ruled out any criminality by the 63-year-old at two Brighton properties.

A nine-day search of his former home in Station Road, Portslade, also found no evidence of a crime.

Operation Anagram, a national exercise by police forces across the UK, was set up to identify issues of concern relating to the killer.

DCI Nick Sloan, of Sussex Police’s Major Crime Branch, said: “As a result of work conducted under Operation Anagram, two addresses in Brighton and Hove were identified as there being enough intelligence to warrant searches of the back gardens and some interior spaces of the buildings.

“We have a duty to fully investigate any allegations of criminality and teams of specialists and experts undertook these complex searches.

“I am completely satisfied that we have conducted thorough and meticulous searches and that both addresses are unconnected to any criminality linked to Peter Tobin.”

Police thanked the owners of four properties in the city that had been searched said the buildings would be returned as close to their original state as possible.

Anyone with information about Tobin’s life is asked to call Sussex Police on 0845 6070999.