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'Evil' Tobin handed life for murder

3 Dec 2008


Convicted sex killer Peter Tobin has been jailed for a minimum of 30 years for the "barbaric" murder of schoolgirl Vicky Hamilton.

The 62-year-old abducted, sexually assaulted and then killed the girl 17 years ago, before cutting up her body and burying it in his garden.

Tobin is already serving a life sentence for raping and murdering Polish student Angelika Kluk and hiding her body in a Glasgow church in 2006.

He was found guilty after a month-long trial at the High Court in Dundee.

Vicky's father Michael shouted "rot in hell" as Tobin was given a life sentence and told he would be 92 years old before he would be considered for release.

Judge Lord Emslie told the killer: "Abducting and killing a child on her way home from a happy weekend with her sister and then desecrating her body must rank among the most evil and horrific acts that any human being could commit."

"Once again, you have shown yourself to be unfit to live in a decent society."

He added: "It is hard for me to convey the loathing and revulsion that ordinary people will feel for what you have done.

During the trial, prosecutor Frank Mulholland QC, Scotland's solicitor-general, described Vicky's murder as "a barbaric act" and an "atrocity".

Speaking outside court about the family's 17-year nightmare, Vicky's younger sister Lindsay Brown, said: "Justice has prevailed today."

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