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Death house search will continue Further house searches ruled out
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Police officers are continuing their investigations at a house in Kent where the bodies of two teenage girls were found buried in the garden last week. Police in Sussex have been reassuring residents there is no plan to search further properties after the bodies of two girls were found in a Kent house.
Detectives said the focus of the search at Irvine Drive, Margate, was now on gathering evidence. They are expected to remain there until Friday. The force said a detective had visited homes in Brighton and Hove.
The bodies have been confirmed as those of Scottish schoolgirl Vicky Hamilton, 15, and Dinah McNicol, 18, from Essex. Investigations at the house in Margate are continuing, with officers expected to remain there until Friday.
Peter Tobin, 61, has been charged in Scotland with the murder of Vicky. The bodies of Vicky Hamilton, 15, from near Falkirk and Dinah McNicol, 18, from Essex, were found buried in the back garden of Irvine Drive last week.
He appeared at Linlithgow Sheriff Court last week, and is due to return to court on Thursday. Detectives said the focus of the search in Margate was now on gathering evidence.
Missing females
Excavation work outside the house was completed early this week and police have since been focusing their attentions inside, looking for any evidence linked to the disappearance of the two girls.
Det Supt Tim Wills, of Essex Police, said: "We are looking for evidence now rather than people. That could be just a very small thing."
Both girls went missing in 1991.Both girls went missing in 1991.
The bodies of both girls were found buried in the back gardenThe bodies of both girls were found buried in the back garden
Vicky, who was from Redding, near Falkirk, was last seen in Bathgate, West Lothian, while Dinah failed to return home to Tillingham from a trip to Hampshire. Vicky was last seen in Bathgate, West Lothian, while Dinah failed to return home to Tillingham from a trip to Hampshire.
Her father, Ian McNicol visited the house in Margate on Monday and said the family would now be able to lay her to rest and grieve. Peter Tobin, 61, has been charged in Scotland with the murder of Vicky.
Excavation work outside the house was completed early this week and police have since been focusing their attentions inside, looking for any evidence linked to the disappearance of the two girls. He appeared at Linlithgow Sheriff Court last week, and is due to return to court on Thursday.
Det Supt Tim Wills, of Essex Police, said: "We are looking for evidence now rather than people. That could bejust a very small thing."
Nationally the police are continuing Operation Anagram, which aims to establish if the discoveries in Margate are linked to other unsolved cases.Nationally the police are continuing Operation Anagram, which aims to establish if the discoveries in Margate are linked to other unsolved cases.
The BBC cannot show pictures of Peter Tobin's face because of legal restrictions in Scotland. Sussex Police said that a detective co-ordinating the force's response to the scoping inquiry had been visiting residents in Brighton and Hove.
Det Ch Supt Kevin Moore, head of Sussex CID, said their inquiry was focusing on missing females in particular.