Handyman accused of murdering girl

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The 62-year-old denies abducting, sexually assaulting and killing the 15-year-old.

Vicky, from Redding, near Falkirk, disappeared in 1991, sparking one of the biggest missing persons investigations in Scottish history. Her remains were found last November, buried at a house in Margate, Kent.

The trial, which is expected to last at least three weeks, got under way before Lord Emslie at the High Court in Dundee after a jury of 12 women and three men was selected.

Tobin pleaded not guilty at an earlier hearing to murdering the schoolgirl on February 10 1991. The odd-job man has entered a special defence of alibi, claiming he was in the Portsmouth area when the 15-year-old disappeared.

He faces a charge of abducting, compelling or otherwise inducing Vicky to accompany him to his home in Robertson Avenue, Bathgate, West Lothian. The charge alleges that there or elsewhere he drugged her, struggled with her, caused an injury to her neck, and sexually assaulted and murdered her.

He is further accused in a second charge of trying to defeat the ends of justice between February 10 1991 and December 15 1991 in Bathgate, Edinburgh, Margate and elsewhere in the UK. It is alleged he concealed Vicky's body and removed and disposed of a number of items of her clothing and footwear.

The charge further states that, knowing the police were carrying out a missing person investigation, Tobin put Vicky's purse under a portable cabin with the intention of misleading police into believing she had run away from home.

He is also accused of cutting her body in two and wrapping it in coverings and bin bags. The charge also alleges Tobin disposed of and hid knives and also concealed, transported and buried Vicky's body parts.

He denies all the charges against him.