Following his death, Peter Tobin will go down in history as one of Scotland's most notorious serial killers.
The evil murderer and rapist died on Saturday October 8, aged 76. While Tobin was serving three life sentences for brutally slaying three women between 1991 and 2006, there have been questions as to whether he was linked to the infamous "Bible John" murders.
The unidentified killer is believed to have murdered three young women after meeting them at the Barrowland Ballroom in Glasgow, Scotland, between 1968 and 1969. Peter Tobin has also been linked to several other unsolved murders.
But who did Peter Tobin murder and could he really be Bible John? Here’s all you need to know.
Who was Peter Tobin?
Tobin, who died aged 76, was born in Johnstone, Renfrewshire. He moved to Brighton and married his first wife in 1969, though they divorced in 1971. He remarried in 1973 though that relationship also broke down a few years later.
In 1990 he moved to Bathgate with his third wife, though she left him that year. Tobin’s wives all described him as turning violent and showing a “sadistic streak”.
In 1991 he moved to Margate, Kent, and by 1993 he was living in Hampshire. That year he sexually assaulted and raped two teen girls and was jailed the following year.
During his life Tobin used dozens of aliases.
Who is Peter Tobin known to have murdered?
Angelika Kluk
In 2007 Tobin was sentenced to life with a minimum of 21 years for the murder of Angelika Kluk, 23, in 2006 in Glasgow. The sentence came just three years after his release from prison over the double rape conviction.
He had been working as a handyman at St Patrick’s Church Anderston, Glasgow, going by the name of Pat McLaughlin. Miss Kluk, who was from Poland, also worked at the church as a cleaner to finance her studies and was staying in the presbytery.
The last time Miss Kluk was seen alive was on 24 September, 2006 - where she was in the company of Tobin. Her body was found by police on 29 September concealed in an underground chamber near the confessional of the church. Miss Kluk had been beaten, raped and stabbed.
Tobin was arrested in London shortly after Miss Kluk’s body was found.
Vicky Hamilton
Tobin murdered the 15-year-old in his Bathgate home as she travelled to Redding, near Falkirk, after visiting a relative in Livingston in February 1991.
Miss Hamilton had last been seen on 10 February 1991 as she waited for a bus home. Her disappearance sparked one of Scotland’s biggest missing person inquiries.
After Tobin’s conviction for Miss Kluk’s murder, his Bathgate home was searched. In November 2007 Miss Hamilton’s remains were discovered buried in the garden of Tobin’s former home in Margate, Kent. Tobin was convicted of Miss Hamilton’s murder in 2008 taking his minimum sentence to 30 years.
Dinah McNicol
On 16 November, 2007 Miss McNicol’s remains were also found at the property in Margate.
The 18-year-old from Tillingham, Essex, had last been seen on 5 August, 1991, when she had been hitchhiking home with a male friend. They had accepted a lift from a man and her friend was dropped off at junction 8 on the M25.
Miss McNicol was never seen again, though withdrawals were made from her building society account from cash machines in Hampshire and Sussex after her disappearance.
After being found guilty in 2009 of murdering Miss McNicol Tobin’s sentence was increased and he is now serving three life sentences.
Could he be linked to the Bible John murders?
Prior to his death, Tobin confessed to a fellow inmate that “I am not Bible John”, but he bragged about committing other murders.
This shocking claim was revealed by a prison pal who believed Tobin wanted to get "things off his chest” as he was on his sickbed while suffering from cancer.
He allegedly told his jail mate: “People just think I am Bible John but I’m not. It wasn’t me. Nothing to do with me. I didn’t kill them.”
Cops investigated whether he has links to the Bible John killings but could not find any evidence.
The former lead detective David Swindle who worked to capture Tobin previously told the Scotsman: “At the end of the day the police need evidence, and there’s absolutely nothing to link Tobin to Bible John… People say the link is, oh well he went to the Barrowland at the same time, but so did hundreds and hundreds of other people - there’s no real evidence or links to Tobin.”
While The Sun reported earlier this year the dad of Vicky Hamilton, Michael, said he did not believe Tobin is BIble John, and thinks the killer is “probably dead”.
Though speaking of Tobin he said: “Plenty of murders haven’t been solved yet — and I believe Tobin had to do with a lot of them.”
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