IS PETER TOBIN THE COUNTRY’S WORST SERIAL KILLER? BBC ALBA EXPLORES
In 2009, while already serving sentences for the murders of two women, Peter Tobin was found guilty of killing 18 year old Dinah McNicol, from Essex. The murder of a third young woman made him ‘officially’ a serial killer.
Produced by STV for BBC ALBA, a compelling drama documentary about Peter Tobin asks the question – is he the worst murderer Scotland has ever known?
Featuring powerful interviews with two of Tobin’s former wives, and dramatic reconstruction portraying him as a cunning predator, the programme details how a major scale police investigation known as ‘Operation Anagram’ continues to piece together the sordid jigsaw of Tobin’s past, in an attempt to determine just how many victims he may have targeted.
A sadistic rapist, in recent years Tobin’s known crimes have been well documented. However, much of his earlier life is still a mystery. Now aged 63 and behind bars for good, police are convinced he may well have committed many more murders throughout the UK.
Shortly before he killed Dinah in 1991, Tobin raped and murdered Falkirk teenager Vicky Hamilton, aged 15. Both girls were then buried together in the back garden of a house in Margate, where Tobin lived at the time. But he was only finally jailed for life following a grotesque incident in a Glasgow church in 2006, when he killed Polish student Angelika Kluk and dumped her body beneath the floorboards.
‘Peter Tobin – Murtair Bitheanta / Serial Killer’ examines the murderer’s profile as a violent predator, with a perverse bloodlust. Two of his former wives testify to his capacity for extreme brutality. The programme also poses the question many have asked since Tobin was imprisoned – could he be responsible for one, or even all, of the unsolved notorious ‘60s Glasgow murders, attributed to a man known only as ‘Bible John’?
‘Peter Tobin – Murtair Bitheanta / Serial Killer’ will be broadcast on BBC ALBA on Wednesday 21 April at 9pm.