Serial Killer Peter Tobin was serving a whole life term for three murders when he died at age 76 in October 2022.
The sister of a schoolgirl murdered by serial killer Peter Tobin has revealed she has become a forensic science teacher to help families get justice.
Lindsay Brown was six when her 15-year-old sister Vicky Hamilton disappeared in February 1991.
Her dismembered body was found 16 years later with that of 18-year-old Dinah McNichol in the back garden of Tobin’s former home in Kent. Dinah had also vanished in 1991.
Lindsay has taken part in a BBC documentary series The Hunt For Peter Tobin which examines how three missing persons cases led to the capture of one of Scotland’s most evil murderers.
In the two-part show, Lindsay, 40, has said she she was inspired by what she saw in court.
She said: “At the court case I was fascinated by how the evidence pinpointed Vicky’s mur-derer. How it was still there after 17 years and I decided that could be something I would like to do.
“So I got my qualifications. I did part of it to make my mum and Vicky proud.
“When I got my qualifications, I decided to stay on. I loved learning and I found out that’s what Vicky was like. Vicky loved learning, she always had her nose in a book.
“I went to university and got my degree and I went straight into teaching forensic science.
“So I do teach the next generation about the basics of sciences and principals, about DNA, and the history behind fingerprinting. It was about making sure other families managed to get closure and justice.”
The Sunday Mail exclusively revealed the last photo of beast Tobin as he lay handcuffed to a bed seriously ill. The killer, who was serving a whole life term for three murders, died the next month, at 76, in October 2022.
The show reveals how it was only after Tobin’s 2006 arrest for the rape and murder of Polish student Angelika Kluk, 23, at a church in Anderston, Glasgow that police became convinced he had killed before.
Overseen by Detective Superintendent David Swindle, taskforce Operation Anagram was set up.
He said: “As soon as I saw what Tobin had done to Angelika I thought, ‘He’s 60 years of age, this is not the first time he has killed. We’ve got to look at this individual’s life. The sad thing is, I’ve no doubt he killed other people.”
Operation Anagram helped build a picture of a serial domestic abuser who went on to become a violent sex offender.
It looked at more than 1000 leads on Tobin, tracked down more than 40 places he lived and any unsolved murders or missing women in those areas.
They traced his ex-wives, former partners and looked at every job and every vehicle he owned or had access to across a 40-year period.
The clues led Swindle’s team first to the home in Bathgate, West Lothian, where Tobin had lived when Vicky Hamilton disappeared. Then to his former home in Margate, Kent, where he moved in 1991.
●The Hunt For Peter Tobin will be on BBC Scotland, 10pm, Tuesday.
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