Serial killer Peter Tobin seriously ill in hospital

Notorious Scottish murderer Peter Tobin, who has cancer, reportedly fell and broke his hip and is now refusing food and medication.

The 76-year-old, who lived in Brighton from 1969 to 1990, is serving a life sentence for the murders of Angelika Kluk, Vicky Hamilton and Dinah McNicol.

Tobin is suspected to be linked to the disappearance of 18-year-old Louise Kay from Beachy Head in 1988. After telling a friend she was going to sleep in her car after an evening out, she was never seen again.

Nicola Stork, Louise’s sister, told the Daily Record: “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 don’t want Tobin to die because it means we might never know, but I’ve got no sympathy if he’s in pain.

“I hope he will confess something or the police can go and speak to him to get it out of him.”

Detectives investigated whether Tobin was responsible for Louise’s disappearance but could never prove her involvement, although Detective Superintendant David Swindle of Strathclyde Police said in a 2018 documentary that he believes Tobin killed her.

He is also suspected of the murder of 22-year-old student Jessie Earl, who also disappeared from Eastbourne in 1980, with her remains discovered on Beachy Head nine years later. Jessie’s parents believe that Tobin is their daughter’s killer.

'Evidence strong to link Tobin to Eastbourne disappearances'

Former police officer and Newsquest group investigations editor Mark Williams-Thomas, who investigated the murders of Louise and Jessie, urged Tobin to confess to all of his crimes

He said: “I would say to him ‘you owe it to those people who you’ve ruined their lives to finally tell them the truth’.

“I have no doubt that Peter Tobin is responsible for the murders of other people. I think the evidence is strong to suggest he was involved in the disappearance of Jessie Earl and Louise Kay.

“He’s a vile man. I’ve listened to lots of interviews with him by the police and there’s no compassion. He doesn’t care what he’s done or that he’s hurt anybody, and he’ll go to his grave keeping his secrets, unfortunately.”

Tobin raped and murdered Polish student Angelika Kluk, 23, and hid her body under the floor of a Glasgow church in 2006.

He also murdered 15-year-old schoolgirl Vicky Hamilton from Redding, near Falkirk, in 1991, and 18-year-old Dinah McNicol, who went missing from Liphook in Hampshire, the same year.

Their bodies were found 17 years later buried in the garden of his former home in Margate in Kent.

Mark also believes that the body of Louise Kay could be buried in the garden of Tobin's former home in Brighton.

He said: “The evidence tells us that Tobin was a burier of bodies, and so it is very believable that he buried her body, and we can place him categorically in that flat at the same time that Louise Kay goes missing.

“I don’t know if Louise Kay is in that garden but what I can tell you is that it is a line of enquiry that should be completed, because she may well be.”

Tobin was taken to hospital in January after collapsing and again in March after becoming unwell but was released shortly afterwards on both occasions.