New leads on serial killer Tobin

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Three people who knew serial killer Peter Tobin while he lived in Brighton have come forward following an appeal on the BBC Crimewatch programme.

Police said a significant amount of information had been provided about Tobin's whereabouts during the 1980s.

Police are also trying to trace items of women's jewellery which Tobin owned.

Tobin, of Johnstone, Renfrewshire, was jailed for life for murdering 18-year-old Dinah McNicol, who went missing in 1991 while hitch-hiking home to Essex.

You have to ask the question, why does a serial killer have in his position items of women's jewellery?" Det Supt David Swindell

Police continue to work on the UK-wide investigation, known as Operation Anagram.

Det Supt David Swindell, leading the investigation said: "The people that we appealed for have come forward.

"Last month when we appealed for Mad Mick he came forward, and he's provided some very significant information.

"That helps us fill part of the timeline of Tobin's life in 1986 when we didn't know where he was."

Police are also trying to trace the owners of women's jewellery which had been in Tobin's possession.

Det Supt Swindell said: "We are have numerous items of jewellery that's [been] traced to Peter Tobin's possession.

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"Stuff that we know he had in his possession in 1993 and stuff that we traced to his possession in 2006.

"A considerable amount of that jewellery is women's jewellery, so you have to ask the question why does a serial killer have in his position items of women's jewellery?"

The bodies of Ms McNicol and Vicky Hamilton, 15, were found in the back garden of Tobin's Margate home in 2007.

He was already serving life for killing Ms Hamilton and Angelika Kluk when he was jailed for killing Ms McNicol.

Ms McNicol vanished in August 1991 while making her way home to Tillingham from a music festival in Hampshire.