Brave ex-wife loses ’race to outlive’ serial sex killer Tobin
Last words to him: ‘Admit your crimes’
THE first wife of serial sex killer Peter Tobin has died – despite hoping that she would outlive the monster who violently abused her during their marriage.
Margaret Mackintosh, 69, died eight years after being diagnosed with lung cancer and told she might have only 18 months to live.
She had wanted to outlast Tobin, who is reported to be dying of cancer at Edinburgh’s Saughton prison.
In a phone call with a friend two weeks before her death on March 27, Margaret said: “I’m looking on it as a kind of slow race and hoping I can outlive him.”
Tobin, 73, is serving life for the murders of Vicky Hamilton, 15, Dinah McNicol, 18, and Angelina Kluk, 23, between 1991 and 2006.
Margaret believed he killed others and hoped he would tell families of missing girls where to find the bodies. In the call, she
BY MARCELLO MEGA said: “I’m having to face mortality now. Soon it’ll be his turn.
“He has caused so much misery and suffering, I don’t think he can hope for redemption but there might be time to meet his maker with a better conscience.
“My last words to him would be, ‘Think of all the suffering caused to families when their loved ones have gone missing because of your perverted desires. It’s time for you to be a man and admit all you’ve done.’”
Margaret married Tobin when she was 17 and, although the marriage was short, his nature soon became apparent.
He kept her a virtual prisoner in his flat in Shettleston, Glasgow. For company, he brought her a puppy but, irritated by its yapping, he beheaded it and threw it from a window.
In one of many sickening assaults, Tobin beat and raped Margaret at knifepoint and sexually assaulted her with the knife. A neighbour saved her life when he spotted blood on his ceiling and called 999.
On the order of service for her funeral, Margaret, who lived with Robert, her husband of 17 years, in a cottage run as a B&B near Dingwall, Easter Ross, wrote: “Now I am at peace, no pain, no worries, no sadness. I am at one with God.”
Robert said only two close friends could be with him at Thursday’s funeral due to the coronavirus crisis.