Peter Tobin
| Peter Tobin | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Peter Britton Tobin 27 August 1946 Johnstone, Renfrewshire, Scotland |
| Other names | up to 40 aliases, including:
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| Occupation | Handyman |
| Criminal penalty | Life imprisonment (whole-life order) |
| Spouse(s) | Margaret Mountney (m. 1969–1971, divorced) Sylvia Jefferies (m. 1973–1976, divorced) Cathy Wilson (m. 1989–1993, divorced) |
| Children | Daisy Ann Tobin (deceased); two sons |
| Conviction(s) | Burglary, forgery, murder, rape |
| Killings | |
| Victims | 3 |
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Span of killings
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10 February 1991–26 September 2006 |
| Imprisoned at | HM Prison Edinburgh |
Peter Britton Tobin (born 27 August 1946) is a convicted Scottish serial killer and sex offender who is currently serving three sentences of life imprisonment with a whole life order at HM Prison Edinburgh for three murders committed between 1991 and 2006.
Prior to his first murder conviction, Tobin served ten years in prison for a double rape committed in 1993, following which he was released in 2004. In 2007, he was sentenced to life with a minimum of 21 years for the rape and murder of Angelika Kluk in Glasgow in 2006. Skeletal remains of a further two young women who went missing in 1991 were subsequently found at his former home in Margate, Kent. Tobin was convicted of the murder of Vicky Hamilton in December 2008, resulting in his minimum sentence being increased to 30 years, and of the murder of Dinah McNicol in December 2009, resulting in a whole life order. Tobin has been labelled a psychopath by a senior psychologist, and by professor of criminology David Wilson, who also wrote a book on the killer connecting him with the Bible John murders of the late 1960s.
Tobin was born in Johnstone, Renfrewshire, the second of eight children. He was a difficult child and in 1953, aged seven, he was sent to an approved school. He later served time in a young offender institution, and in 1970 was convicted and imprisoned in England for burglary and forgery.
After a fairly successful spell at Thorn Athletic, Tobin moved to Brighton, Sussex, with his 17-year-old girlfriend, Margaret Louise Robertson Mountney, a clerk and typist, whom he married on 6 August that year. They separated after a year and she divorced him in 1971. In 1973 in Brighton, he married a local nurse, 30-year-old Sylvia Jefferies. The couple had a son and daughter, the latter of whom died soon after birth. This second, violent, marriage lasted until 1976, when she left with their son. Tobin then had a relationship with Cathy Wilson, who gave birth to a son in December 1987. Tobin married her in Brighton in 1989, when she was 17. In 1990, they moved to Bathgate, West Lothian. Wilson left Tobin in 1990 and moved back to Portsmouth, Hampshire, where she had grown up. All three wives later gave similar accounts of falling for a charming, well-dressed psychopath who turned violent and displayed a sadistic streak during their marriages. In May 1991, Tobin moved to Margate, Kent, and in 1993, to Havant, Hampshire, to be near his younger son.
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