A SERIAL killer who murdered a teenager after she left a huge illegal ‘free festival’ at Bramshott has died in hospital while serving three life sentences in HMP Edinburgh.
Peter Tobin, who was convicted of murdering three women, including teenager Dinah McNicol, died on Saturday morning in Edinburgh aged 76.
McNicol, an 18-year-old sixth former from Tillingham, Essex, was last seen alive on August 5, 1991, hitchhiking home with a male friend from the Torpedo Town festival on Bramshott Common.
Thousands attended the three-day party at which drugs were available and it was thought she had disappeared at the event; but searches of the area found nothing.
It turned out the hitchhikers had accepted a lift from a man. Her friend was dropped off at the M25 Junction 8, near Reigate. McNicol stayed in the car and was never seen again.
After she disappeared, regular withdrawals were made from her account at cash machines in Hampshire and Sussex.
In 2007, Essex Police reopened their investigation and on November 16, 2007, her body was found buried at Tobin’s former home, 50 Irvine Drive in Margate.
On December 16, 2009, a jury took less than 15 minutes to find Tobin guilty of McNicol’s murder and he received his third life sentence.
Earlier in 2009 he had been given a life sentence for the murder of Falkirk schoolgirl Vicky Hamilton, also in 1991. She had been buried in the same garden as McNicol.
And in 2007 he had been sentenced to life for the rape and murder of Angelika Kluk in Glasgow in 2006.