Killer’s ex: My relief monster is dead
...but wife tells of grief after killer refused to talk to cops
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THE ex-wife of serial killer Peter Tobin has expressed grief for families who will “never have answers”, after he died yesterday without revealing secrets of other suspected murders.
Cathy Wilson slammed “monster” Tobin, who passed away aged 76 while serving life sentences for the murders of Vicky Hamilton, 15, Dinah Mcnicol, 18, and Angelika Kluk, 23.
He had been linked to the disappearances of other women but refused to admit to more murders when quizzed on his hospital deathbed.
Cathy, who had son Daniel, 34, with Tobin, said: “He was a monster, there is a feeling of relief that he is dead.
“But the strongest emotion we have is grief for the families of girls and young women who disappeared and know Tobin was the likely culprit, but who have to accept they will never have the answers they wanted.”
Three-times married Tobin was jailed for raping and murdering Polish student Angelika in 2006 and hiding her body under a Glasgow church floor where he worked as a handyman.
He was also handed life terms for the murders of schoolgirl Vicky, of Redding, near Falkirk, in 1991, and Dinah who disappeared while hitchhiking home to Essex from a music festival in the same year.
Buried
Their bodies were found 17 years later, buried in the garden of Tobin’s former home in Margate, Kent.
The killer died at Edinburgh’s Royal Infirmary following a string of health problems, which included breaking his hip in a recent fall.
Police believe he was responsible for killing other women because he had 40 aliases and 150 cars in his life.
Cathy, 52, who met Tobin when she was 16, said she and Daniel, 34, had doubted he would show mercy to families of other possible victims.
She said: “The thing he enjoyed was having power and control.
“Everyone knows there were other victims. He could have made all the difference in the world to grieving families who still don’t know for sure what happened to their loved ones, but that would have meant nothing to him.”
Det Chief Supt Laura Thomson, head of major crime at Police Scotland, said officers had tried to get Tobin to admit to
Everyone knows there were other victims, he enjoyed control
any other crimes and “do the right thing” before his death.
Last night, Vicky Hamilton’s siblings Sharon, Lee and Lindsay paid tribute to “her laughter, her smile”. They said: “If
[Tobin] has taken more victims, our hearts go out to their families and can only wish one day they get the closure they so badly deserve.
“We will not be celebrating any passing but instead will be remembering Vicky, Angelika and Dinah along with any other victims.”
Tobin was nearly 40 and had been
married twice already when he persuaded Cathy to leave her grandparents in Brighton and live with him.
She said he turned violent when she got pregnant with Daniel.
She added: “I was his slave. Even when I went into labour, he refused to take me to hospital until I had cooked a roast dinner for him and some friends. I was scared to cross him and felt completely tied.”
Former detective David Swindle, who led the investigation into Tobin, said: “There’s no doubt in my mind he’s responsible for many more murders, but as I feared, he’s taken his secrets to the grave.”