Body of serial killer Peter Tobin, 76, who died of cancer after murdering at least three women is ‘secretly cremated and dumped at sea after NO ONE came forward to claim him’
- The body of evil murderer Peter Tobin has been cremated and scattered at sea
- No one came forward to claim his body after the killer, 76, died earlier this month
- Tobin killed three women but it’s believed to have murdered many more people
- He died chained to a hospital bed, thought to have terminal cancer, on October 8
The body of serial killer and paedophile Peter Tobin has been cremated and dumped at sea after no family forward to claim him after he died in hospital.
The evil murderer, who once boasted that he’d killed 48 women, died from cancer earlier this month, chained to a hospital bed.
Edinburgh City Council said it arranged for the body of the cold-blooded killer to be cremated on Thursday 13 October.
No service was held, and it took place in secret after Tobin died on Saturday 8 October, aged 76, after refusing to take food or medication after breaking his hip.
The body of serial killer Peter Tobin (pictured) has been cremated and buried at sea after no one came forward to claim his body
His confirmed victims were (left to right) Angelika Kluk, Vicky Hamilton and Dinah McNicol
Specialist officers from Sussex Police continue to search a garden of his house in Station Road, Portslade, where Tobin once lived
The council had been forced to make the arrangements after no one claimed the convicted killer’s body, The Sunday Mail reports.
Tobin was found to have killed three women – but is thought to have slaughtered many more.
He was serving a life sentence for the rape and murder of Police student Angelika Kluk, 23, whose body was found hidden under the floorboards of a Glasgow church in 2006.
Tobin had worked in the church as a handyman, which is how police identified him as a suspect.
The Scottish killer, who is believed to be one of the UK’s worst ever serial killers, was also serving life terms for the murder of 15-year-old schoolgirl Vicky Hamilton, of Redding, near Falkirk in 1991, and 18-year-old Dinah McNicol the same year.
Their bodies were found 17 years later, buried in the garden of his former home in Margate, Kent.
He had previously been convicted of raping two 14-year-old girls in 1993.
The notorious Scottish serial killer and convicted sex offender Tobin died in an Edinburgh cell
Angelika Kluk, 23, was beaten, stabbed and raped before being hidden under floorboards while she was still alive
Dinah McNicol, 18, was only found 17 years after her death in a makeshift grave at a house where Tobin had previously lived
Like other serial killers, his ashes were also scattered at sea.
A source told The Sunday Mail: ‘After he died, this was dealt with quickly. Like serial killers Robert Black and Angus Sinclair, it was considered best that his remains were scattered in the sea.’
Questions have been raised over how Tobin died as his death certificate, which was registered the day he was cremated, said the cause of death was ‘unascertained’, meaning it was pending investigation.
But sources close to the case have said he was suffering from terminal cancer.
Vicky’s family said upon hearing the news of Tobin’s death: ‘He does not deserve anymore of our family’s thoughts.’
The death certificate named his three ex-wives, Margaret Mountney, Slyvia Jefferies and Cathy Wilson.
It also named his parents Daniel and Margeret Tobin.
His address was listed as HMP Edinburgh’s address – 33 Stenhouse Road.
He was described as divorced and holding no job. The time of death was declared to be 05.33am on October 8.
The exact location of the cremation cannot be revealed, however, some say it may have taken place at the capital’s crematorium at Mortonhall.
The council confirmed the cremation had taken place. A spokesperson said: ‘The remains of Peter Tobin were cremated in accordance with the requirements of Section 87 of the Burials and Cremation (Scotland) Act 2016.
‘Ashes from the cremation were dispersed into the sea. The Council’s thoughts are with the victims of his crimes and their loved ones.’
Tobin’s ex-wife Cathy Wilson, 52, (pictured) said she was glad he was dead
His ex-wife Cathy Wilson, 52, said she was glad he was dead but was heartbroken for suspected victims’ families after he chose to take his secrets to the grave.
She told the Sunday Mirror: ‘He was a monster and there is a feeling of relief that he is now dead.
‘But the strongest emotion we have is grief for the families of girls and young women who disappeared and know Tobin was the likely culprit, but who have to accept now that they will never have the answers they wanted so badly.’
Officers believe Tobin will have killed others and had at least 40 aliases and 150 cars during his life to hide his tracks as he targeted vulnerable women.
It is impossible to know many women he raped and killed over his life, but criminologists think the true number is likely to be far higher than three.
If the 48 number is accurate, it is thought that would make him the second-worst identified serial killer in the UK in modern times, behind Dr Harold Shipman, who is thought to have killed around 250.
Following his death, police officers cordoned off his cell to search it in the hope of finding new evidence that would connect him to other crimes.
Detective Chief Superintendent Laura Thomson, head of major crime at Police Scotland, said final attempts to encourage Tobin to ‘do the right thing and share any knowledge he may have had which could assist the police were unsuccessful’.
Born in August 1946 in Johnstone, Renfrewshire, Tobin’s life of crime began after he was sent to a reform school at the age of seven.
In his teens and early twenties, he served jail terms for burglary, forgery and conspiracy.
In 1994 he was jailed for 14 years for a sickening double sex attack on two schoolgirls at his flat in Hampshire.
The girls had travelled to visit a neighbour who was out, so they asked if they could wait at Tobin’s flat.
He held them at knifepoint, raped them, stabbed one and turned the gas on in his flat, leaving them for dead.
Miraculously, they both survived the attack and Tobin was sentenced to 14 years in prison.
Tobin was also a serial wife beater, with all three of his former spouses claiming he repeatedly and viciously attacked them.
Peter Tobin pictured after being found guilty of the Ms Kluk’s murder in May 2007 – he would be sentenced to life with a minimum of 21 years
The registered sex offender went on the run for nearly a year before killing his first confirmed victim after he failed to keep in touch with police following his release from prison.
Now many families who suspect their daughters may have been taken from them by the evil serial killer will never know for sure whether it was him.
Jessie Earl, a 22-year-old art student in Eastbourne, East Sussex, was last seen alive on May 15, 1980.
Her body was discovered nine years later, with all her clothing missing except for her bra.
Despite this, the Sussex Police investigation was shut down after just four weeks and her death declared ‘non-suspicious’. An inquest four months later returned an open verdict.
Her father John previously told The Daily Mail: ‘We were horrified. It seemed obvious to us from the start that she’d been murdered, and all the evidence appeared to point that way.
‘Jessie was found without a stitch of clothing apart from her bra, which was so tightly knotted it could only be undone with a metal probe. She didn’t do that to herself, did she?’
The Earls refused to accept the verdict and began their tireless campaign to overturn it.
Speaking after Tobin’s death, Jessie’s mother said: ‘We’ll never know if he killed our daughter.’
On Wednesday, May 14, 1980, Jessie Earl, a 22-year-old art student in Eastbourne, East Sussex, called her parents from a seafront phonebox to say she’d be home for the weekend. She sounded happy, opening the door so her mother could hear a brass band playing nearby, telling her: ‘You’d love it here.’ It would be the last time Valerie would ever speak to her only daughter
Last December — 41 years after Jessie’s disappearance and the day before what would have been her 64th birthday — they finally won a High Court legal battle for a new inquest.
The High Court quashed the original verdict after hearing the ‘flawed’ police investigation in 1989 was shut down by a senior investigating officer — for reasons which remain unclear — leaving 103 open lines of inquiry that were never followed up.
Shockingly, Jessie’s death wasn’t even recorded as a crime, let alone a potential homicide. As a result, physical evidence, including the bra, was later disposed of.
Now her family will never know who killed their daughter, but they were told that evil killer Tobin was a possible suspect.
There have also long been rumours that Tobin was the real ‘Bible John’ killer, who murdered three young women in Glasgow in 1968-9 – but there is no evidence to prove this.
Tobin has now taken all of these dark secrets to his grave.
His exact cause of death is yet to be revealed. Tests were said to have been carried out before his cremation, but the results have not been made public.
It is believed, however, that he was suffering from terminal cancer.
He had been admitted to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh from HMP Edinburgh after falling ill in April – just two months after being taken to hospital in February.
Tobin has been at the centre of a string of reported health scares over the past decade.
In January 2019 it was reported that he was too frail to leave his cell after being struck down by cancer.
And in February 2016 he was taken to the Royal Infirmary by ambulance after he reportedly collapsed in his cell.
Tobin was also slashed in the face with a razor blade during what was said to be a prison attack back in 2015, leaving him with an eight-inch scar.
Angelika, Dinah and Vicky: The tragic victims of Peter Tobin
Tobin (above) was handed life terms for all three murders in separate trials
Until the body of Polish student Angelika Kluk was found in 2006, under the floorboards of a Glasgow church where Tobin worked as a handyman, his most serious offence was believed to have been the 1994 rape of two young girls, for which he received a 14-year jail term.
After his arrest for Angelika’s murder, police began probing Tobin’s earlier life and found the bodies of Vicky Hamilton and Dinah McNicol in a shallow grave in his former home in Margate, Kent.
Hitchhiker Dinah had just finished her A-levels in 1991 and was hitching with a man she had befriended at a music festival.
Thrice-married Tobin, a father of two, had been visiting his son in Portsmouth and picked them up.
He dropped the man off near the M25 and no one saw Dinah again.
Tobin’s looks and car matched the description provided by Miss McNicol’s friend of the man who had given them a lift.
Her body was found bound and gagged a few feet from another teenage victim, Vicky Hamilton, who had been snatched in Bathgate, Lothian, as she headed home, also in 1991.
Vicky’s body had been cut in half – probably to make it easier to transport from Scotland. Both bodies were wrapped in rubbish sacks which had Tobin’s fingerprints.
The remains of Miss Hamilton and Miss McNicol were found to contain traces of an anti-depressant that can cause drowsiness and dizziness.
He was handed life terms for all three murders in separate trials.
Police set up Operation Anagram in 2006 to see if they could connect Tobin with hundreds of other unsolved crimes, though the investigations were wound down in 2011.
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