The household of Vicky Hamilton, who was kidnapped in Bathgate by Peter Tobin mentioned the serial killer “doesn't deserve any extra of their ideas” following his dying on the weekend.
The infamous monster was pronounced lifeless on the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh on Saturday on the age of 76.
He had been chained to a hospital mattress after falling in jail and was refusing meals and drugs.
Tobin kidnapped 15-year-old Vicky as she waited for a bus after visiting elder sister Sharon in Bathgate on February 10, 1991. In an announcement posted on Fb, her mentioned they might not be celebrating the killer’s passing.
It learn: “With the unconfirmed information of Tobin’s passing, the household want to remind individuals of what we mentioned outdoors Dundee Excessive Courtroom when he was lastly discovered responsible of our sisters homicide. We not want to speak about him. Sadly the recognition of Serial Killers and True Crime will make him notorious for a very long time and his victims will all however develop into a footnote in his historical past.
“We keep in mind Vicky, we keep in mind her laughter, her smile and we wish to hold that reminiscence after all of the years of getting no thought what had occurred to her, adopted by heartbreak of dropping our mum not lengthy after Vicky went lacking. He doesn't deserve anymore of our households ideas.
“If he has taken extra victims, our hearts exit to their households and might solely want in the future they get the closure they so badly deserve. We is not going to be celebrating any passing however as an alternative might be remembering Vicky, Angelika and Dinah together with some other victims, and we respectfully ask for others to do the identical.”
Tobin, who additionally had most cancers, had been serving a complete life sentence at HMP Edinburgh for the merciless killings of teenager Vicky, Angelika Kluk and Dinah McNicol.
In 2007, he was discovered responsible on the Excessive Courtroom in Edinburgh of raping and murdering Polish pupil Angelika Kluk.
The case prompted detectives to look into Tobin’s previous, the place he was investigated over the disappearances of lacking youngsters Vicky and Dinah.
Vicky had been lacking for 16 years earlier than her stays had been dug up in 2007 by forensic officers throughout a search operation of the assassin’s former dwelling in Kent. It was there the place in addition they discovered the physique of lacking 18-year-old Dinah.
Tobin was convicted of Dinah’s homicide in 2009.
Police Scotland confirmed the dying isn't being handled as suspicious.
A spokesperson mentioned: “At 6.04am on Saturday, October 8, 2022, officers attended on the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh following the dying of a 76-year-old man.
The dying isn't being handled as suspicious and a report might be submitted to the Procurator Fiscal.”
The Scottish Jail Service declined to remark.
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