‘He was a monster and I’m glad he’s dead’: Ex-wife of serial killer Peter Tobin blasts her former lover for taking secrets that could’ve solved murders of suspected victims to the grave after he died of cancer aged 76 while chained to his prison bed
- Twisted serial killer’s ex-wife said: ‘There’s a feeling of relief that he’s now dead’
- Cathy Wilson, 52, was married to Peter Tobin, who died today aged 76
- He took secrets to the grave, stopping potential victims’ families getting answers
- They have now spoken of their heartbreak, with Wilson joining the public anger
Cathy Wilson appeared in 2011 documentary ‘Married to a Killer’, about her husband
The ex-wife of serial killer and paedophile Peter Tobin, who once boasted that he’d killed 48 women, said she’s glad he is dead.
Cathy Wilson, 52, joined in the heartbreak of suspected victims’ families after Tobin chose to take his secrets to the grave.
That means many loved ones of potential murder victims will never know for sure what happened to them.
Wilson told the Sunday Mirror: ‘He was a monster and there is a feeling of relief that he is now 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 now that they will never have the answers they wanted so badly.’
Valerie Earl, mother to murdered Jessie, also told the newspaper: ‘We’ll never know if he killed our daughter.’
Tobin died in an Edinburgh prison while serving a life sentence for raping and murdering Polish student Angelika Kluk, 23, and hiding her body under the floor of a Glasgow church in 2006.
Notorious Scottish serial killer and convicted sex offender Tobin died in an Edinburgh cell
His confirmed victims were (left to right) Angelika Kluk, Vicky Hamilton and Dinah McNicol
Tobin had worked in the church as a handyman, which is how police identified him as a suspect. He is thought to be one of the UK’s worst ever serial killers.
The killer was also serving life terms for the murders of 15-year-old schoolgirl Vicky Hamilton, of Redding, near Falkirk, in 1991, and 18-year-old Dinah McNicol the same year.
Their bodies were found 17 years later, buried in the garden of his former home in Margate, Kent.
He had previously been convicted of raping two 14-year-old girls in 1993.
Tobin was also convicted of raping two 14-year-old girls in 1993 – and killed after release
Vicky’s family said upon hearing the news of Tobin’s death: ‘He does not deserve anymore of our family’s thoughts.’
Police Scotland confirmed that he died at 6.04pm on Saturday at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.
They said the death was not being treated as suspicious and a report would be submitted to the procurator fiscal.
Retired Detective Superintendent David Swindle told the BBC: ‘As far as I am concerned, Peter Tobin is evil. He’s pure evil.
‘This is someone who had no respect for humanity.’
He added: ‘I have no doubt that Peter Tobin has killed other people. He is a coward who has taken is secrets to the grave.’
Vast police hours were spent in recent years piecing together the loner’s nomadic lifestyle on the fringes of society, where he hid behind a variety of identities.
Officers believe Tobin will have killed others and had at least 40 aliases and 150 cars during his life to hide his tracks as he targeted vulnerable women.
Born in August 1946 in Johnstone, Renfrewshire, Tobin’s life of crime began after he was sent to a reform school at the age of seven.
In his teens and early twenties he served jail terms for burglary, forgery and conspiracy.
Ms Wilson said she was relieved that her ex-husband is dead – and that was a ‘monster’
In 1994 he was jailed for 14 years for a sickening double sex attack on two schoolgirls at his flat in Hampshire.
The girls had travelled to visit a neighbour who was out, so they asked if they could wait at Tobin’s flat.
He held them at knifepoint, raped them, stabbed one and turned the gas on in his flat, leaving them for dead.
Miraculously, they both survived the attack and Tobin was sentenced to 14 years in prison.
Tobin was also a serial wife beater, with all three of his former spouses claiming he repeatedly and viciously attacked them.
The registered sex offender went on the run for nearly a year before killing his first confirmed victim after he failed to keep in touch with police following his release from prison.
Angelika, Dinah and Vicky: The tragic victims of Peter Tobin
Tobin (above) was handed life terms for all three murders in separate trials
Until the body of Polish student Angelika Kluk was found in 2006, under the floorboards of a Glasgow church where Tobin worked as a handyman, his most serious offence was believed to have been the 1994 rape of two young girls, for which he received a 14-year jail term.
After his arrest for Angelika’s murder, police began probing Tobin’s earlier life and found the bodies of Vicky Hamilton and Dinah McNicol in a shallow grave in his former home in Margate, Kent.
Hitchhiker Dinah had just finished her A-levels in 1991 and was hitching with a man she had befriended at a music festival.
Thrice-married Tobin, a father of two, had been visiting his son in Portsmouth and picked them up.
He dropped the man off near the M25 and no one saw Dinah again.
Tobin’s looks and car matched the description provided by Miss McNicol’s friend of the man who had given them a lift.
Her body was found bound and gagged a few feet from another teenage victim, Vicky Hamilton, who had been snatched in Bathgate, Lothian, as she headed home, also in 1991.
Vicky’s body had been cut in half – probably to make it easier to transport from Scotland. Both bodies were wrapped in rubbish sacks which had Tobin’s fingerprints.
The remains of Miss Hamilton and Miss McNicol were found to contain traces of an anti-depressant that can cause drowsiness and dizziness.
He was handed life terms for all three murders in separate trials.
Police set up Operation Anagram in 2006 to see if they could connect Tobin with hundreds of other unsolved crimes, though the investigations were wound down in 2011.
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