Who was Peter Tobin?
PETER TOBIN was known to be one of Britain’s most notorious killers who would never be released from prison.
Also thought to be Bible John, here is what we know about the late Peter Tobin.
Who was Peter Tobin?
was a Glasgow-based serial killer who served life without parole after being convicted of the brutal murders of three innocent women.
He was born on August 27, 1946, and died on October 5, 2022, aged 76.
The monster, who had served ten years for raping two 14-year-old girls, was found guilty of killing Polish student Angelika Kluk in 2006.
When detectives quizzed him about other killings, he snarled: “I couldn’t give a f***.”
At the time of his sentencing, the judge said the man had been involved in “the truly evil abduction” – adding that he was “unfit to live in a decent society.”
He said: “It is hard for me to convey the loathing and revulsion that ordinary people will feel for what you have done.”
How did Peter Tobin die?
Peter Tobin died in prison where he was serving three life sentences.
Tobin became unwell and was taken to hospital from HMP Edinburgh on Wednesday.
How many people did Peter Tobin murder?
Peter Tobin murdered three women.
In 1991 he murdered schoolgirld Vicky Hamilton and Dinah McNicol.
Their bodies were found in the garden of his former home in Margate, Kent 17 years after their death.
In 2006 he raped and murdered Angelica Kluk.
He hid her body under the floor of a church in Glasgow.
He beat 23-year-old Angelika with a table leg, stabbing and raping her in the horrific attack – which took place in a church in Glasgow.
Officers racked up more than 1,500 hours of overtime before they caught for the 1991 murders of Vicky Hamilton and Dinah McNicol – with the subsequent charges leading to a life sentence.
Was Peter Tobin Bible John?
The parallels between and the notorious Sixties murderer known as Bible John have sparked such speculation that cops are seriously probing a possible link.
It was between February 1968 and October 1969 that Bible John savagely assaulted and murdered his three brunette victims – Patricia Docker, 25, Jemima McDonald, 32, and 29-year-old Helen Puttock – who had all been wearing black dresses.
All three were strangled with their own tights after being picked up by a handsome, smartly dressed, charismatic man at the city’s Barrowland Ballroom.
The killer earned his nickname after a taxi driver who drove the murderer with his last victim remembered him muttering quotes from the Bible – sparking speculation that the killer was a religious nut.
One near-victim said she was positive that is the killer – but cops have ruled out any connection.
Recently, the admitted that he no longer believes that Tobin is the same person as Bible John.
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