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Peter Tobin has been convicted of murdering Dinah McNicol, 18, following a trial at Chelmsford Crown Court. | Peter Tobin has been convicted of murdering Dinah McNicol, 18, following a trial at Chelmsford Crown Court. |
Tobin, 63, from Johnstone, Renfrewshire, was already in prison for killing two women. | Tobin, 63, from Johnstone, Renfrewshire, was already in prison for killing two women. |
Judge Mr Justice Calvert-Smith imposed a life sentence with a recommendation he serves a full life term. | |
Miss McNicol vanished in August 1991 while hitchhiking to her home in Tillingham, Essex, after leaving a music festival in Hampshire. | Miss McNicol vanished in August 1991 while hitchhiking to her home in Tillingham, Essex, after leaving a music festival in Hampshire. |
The jury took just 15 minutes to find him guilty of killing the sixth former after a three-day trial. | |
In 2007, Tobin was convicted of killing Polish student Angelika Kluk, whose remains were hidden in a church in Glasgow where he had worked as a handyman. | |
Following that trial, police dug up the back garden at one of his former homes in Margate, Kent. | Following that trial, police dug up the back garden at one of his former homes in Margate, Kent. |
There they discovered the body of Vicky Hamilton, 15, who had disappeared in 1991 from a bus stop in Bathgate near Edinburgh - where Tobin was living at the time. | |
He was convicted of her murder in 2008 and a judge ruled he should serve at least 30 years. | |
Four days after the discovery of Miss Hamilton's body, Miss McNicol's remains were found buried nearby. | |
Both of the victims had been drugged and Miss McNicol had been strangled. Police also discovered Tobin had stolen more than £2,000 from her building society account. | |
Tobin was already a convicted rapist when he murdered Miss Kluk. | |
In 1993, he had raped a 14-year-old girl - and indecently assaulted another - at his then home in Havant, Hampshire. He was jailed for 14 years at Winchester Crown Court in 1994. |