Probe launched into death of serial killer Tobin

AN INVESTIGATION into the death of serial killer Peter Tobin has been launched.

Tobin ( pictured), who was serving a full life order sentence, died on October 8, 2022, at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.

He had been an inmate at HMP Edinburgh when he was taken to hospital on September 9, 2022 following a fall in his cell the previous night.

Tobin was convicted of the murders of Angelika Kluk, 23, Vicky Hamilton, 15, and Dinah McNicol, 18.

He raped and stabbed Polish student Kluk at a church in Glasgow’s Anderston in 2006.

He was also nailed for killing Hamilton, of Falkirk, and McNicol, of Essex, both in 1991.

The killer, who died aged 76, has long been suspected by police of murdering several other women as he lived under more than 40 aliases and had more than 150 cars in his life.

Now, the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service ( COPFS) has lodged a first notice to begin the court process for a fatal accident inquiry

( FAI).

He had been receiving palliative care before his death as his health worsened.

He was monitored by GeoAmey officers at all times while in hospital.

The FAI – mandatory by law – will look into the cause of death, the circumstances in which it occurred, and will establish whether any reasonable precautions could have been taken to prevent the death.

It aims to minimise the risk of deaths in the future.

FAIs are used to establish facts as opposed to attributing blame to an individual or group.

Procurator fiscal Andy Shanks, who leads on fatalities investigations for COPFS, said: “The Lord Advocate considers that the death of Peter Tobin occurred while in legal custody and as such a fatal accident inquiry is mandatory.”