Sick chancer faked illness for cell breaks

SERIAL killer Peter Tobin may have used up to 40 aliases to try to hide from the law but there’s one thing he can’t outrun – his health.

Currently suffering from cancer, the 74-year-old has spent much of his prison time in hospital with various complaints – many of them bogus.

He is serving three life sentences for murdering three young women between 1991 and 2006.

He butchered Polish student Angelika Kluk, 23, Vicky Hamilton, 15, from Redding, near Falkirk, and Essex schoolgirl Dinah McNicol, 18 – and has been linked to a string of unsolved deaths across Britain.

But he is notorious on the inside as a chancer who has played the system to get an easy ride in jail – until he was diagnosed with a painful form of cancer that has left him in agony on a hospital bed as he fights for life.

He often used to complain of ill-health before court appearances, forcing their postponement, which piled on the agony for his victims’ families.

When he was arrested for the murder of Angelika in 2006 he was in hospital in London under a false name with a fictitious health complaint.

In 2012, he complained of chest pains and was admitted to an

Edinburgh hospital with a suspected heart attack. He was then hospitalised again in 2016 with a suspected stroke.

Prison insiders say when he really did start to be become unwell with cancer symptoms he was in danger of becoming the “boy who cried wolf”.

Criminologist Professor David Wilson believes Tobin makes up his health woes to get a little “holiday” from the misery of prison. He

Let’s face it, hospitals are much more comfortable than prison PROFESSOR DAVID WILSON CRIMINOLOGIST

said: “Let’s face it, hospitals are much more comfortable than prison. “Tobin is a narcissist who seeks attention and where better to get it than in hospital?” Since his diagnosis, Tobin is saidsa to have been at dedeath’s door several timtimes but despite hishi weight plummeting plummet to about five-and-and-a-half stone hehe continuescontin to hang on to lifelife. A prisprison insider said: “CaCancer hasn’t managed manage to get him yet and neither has Covid. HHe is isolated in his ccell but is somehow someh still alive. “He was very nearly the boy who cried wolf when he became becam ill with the cancer cance as nobody believed belie him. “TThe only thing anyone anyo wants from him is the truth trut about his crimes crim but he’ll take tak that to his grave. gra “He is truly evil ev personified.”