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Driver 'murdered teenage hitcher' McNicol accused 'murdered before'
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A teenager was abducted and murdered in 1991 while hitchhiking home from a music festival, a court has been told. A man accused of murdering a teenager after giving her a lift as she hitchhiked in 1991 is already in jail for murder, a court has been told.
Prosecutor William Clegg QC told Chelmsford Crown Court that he intended to prove Peter Tobin had picked up Dinah McNicol before murdering her. Peter Tobin, 63, from Johnstone, Renfrewshire, denies the abduction and murder of Dinah McNicol.
Miss McNicol, 18, of Tillingham, Essex, had been awaiting her A-level results, which she never learned. Her remains were found in Margate, Kent, in 2007. Miss McNicol, 18, of Tillingham, Essex, vanished on her way back from a Hampshire music festival. Her remains were found in Margate, Kent, in 2007.
Mr Tobin, 63, from Johnstone, Renfrewshire, denies murder. Mr Tobin was convicted last year of the murder of Vicky Hamilton, who was 15.
She had disappeared from Bathgate, near Edinburgh, in 1991.
The remains of Miss Hamilton and Miss McNicol were found buried in the garden of a Margate home that had been occupied by Mr Tobin in the early 1990s.
Prosecutor William Clegg QC told Chelmsford Crown Court that he intended to prove Mr Tobin had given a lift to Miss McNicol on 5 August 1991, then abducted and killed her.
Miss McNicol had been awaiting her A-level results at the time, which she never learned.