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WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 2007 40p ... PICK UP FREE CD ANOTHER GREAT FREE LISTEN AND LEARN SPANISH CD EVERY DAY SPANISH FOR A WEEK PICK UP FROM WHSMITH OR WE CAN POST YOU THE WHOLE SET. SEE PAGE 75 P&P PAYABLE Killer Tobin ignored Sex Offenders’ Register and vanished just months before he brutally murdered Polish student THE BETRAYAL OF ANGELIKA A CATASTROPHIC failure By Gavin Madeley of the criminal justice in Edinburgh to plead guilty to system was last night breaching the Sex Offences Act 2003. Yet, even as he left court, it emerged blamed for allowing the that police were preparing to dig up the killer of Angelika Kluk to garden of one of Tobin’s former homes in an attempt to solve the murder of stay on the run for a year Vicky Hamilton. before he murdered her. The 15-year-old went missing in Bathgate in 1991 while waiting for a bus Peter Tobin was jailed for life home. Tobin was then living in the West earlier this month for the Lothian town in a house not far from ‘inhuman’ killing of the Polish the bus stop where Vicky was last seen. student, whose body was found Detectives are already planning buried under a church floor. to question the murderer about her However, a court heard yesterday that disappearance. police had been looking for Tobin – a In 1994, three years after Vicky registered sex offender – since disappeared, Tobin was sentenced to November 2005, when he disappeared 14 years in prison for raping two from his home without informing schoolgirls in . the authorities. When he was freed early ten years Peter Tobin: Disappeared from his home Tobin, 60, appeared at the High Court Turn to Page 10 Angelika Kluk: Body found under church Page 10 S1 Daily Mail, Wednesday, May 23, 2007 How could they

Continued from Page One savage murder, to admit a breach of the Sexual really is. All someone as twisted and cunning as Offences Act 2003. Judge Lord Malcolm told Tobin needs to do is refuse to co-operate with later, he was still considered such a serious Tobin he ‘deliberately chose to keep the police the authorities and the whole thing just seems danger to women that he was placed on the Sex in the dark’ and jailed him for 30 months. to fall apart, leaving the police chasing Offenders’ Register. Although the charge carries a maximum sen- shadows. It is a shambles.’ Like all registered sex offenders, he was sup- tence of five years in prison, the judge ordered She added: ‘Tobin ruined my life. He is pure posed to keep police and other monitoring the sentence to run concurrently with his life evil. I don’t think it was ever safe to release a agencies up to date with his whereabouts. sentence, which means Tobin will not spend man like that after what he did to me. But, Yet, within months of his release and return to any longer behind bars. what makes it crueller is to let the public think his native Paisley, officers had lost track of Tobin’s latest conviction prompted fresh con- they are safe because his release was being Tobin after he vanished from his home. cerns about the monitoring of dangerous properly monitored when it plainly wasn’t. Incredibly, he was hiding out just a few miles offenders released into the community and ‘I cannot imagine how Angelika’s poor family away in where, using an alias, he found triggered bitter condemnation from one of his must be feeling after learning all of this on top work as a handyman at St Patrick’s Church, former teenage victims. of what they have already suffered.’ Anderston, and where he was free to murder The woman, now in her late twenties and who Advocate depute Dorothy Bain, prosecuting, 23-year-old Miss Kluk in September last year. cannot be named for legal reasons, said: ‘The told the court that Tobin was jailed for 14 years Yesterday, Tobin returned to the High Court Sex Offenders’ Register is supposed to be there in May 1994 at Winchester Crown Court for the in Edinburgh, where he was earlier ordered to to protect the public from the likes of Tobin, brutal sex attack on two girls aged 14 and 15, serve a minimum of 21 years for Miss Kluk’s but he has shown up just how ineffective it who he plied with alcohol and drugs. When he was released on licence ten years later, Tobin moved to Paisley and initially checked in with the police. He notified them of two changes of address within the three-day period the Sex Offences Act allows. But in October 2005, when police went to his Brown Street address in the town to speak to Tobin in connec- tion with an alleged incident, they found the ground-floor flat empty. Officers made return visits without success before police armed with a warrant entered the flat on October 25. With no sign of Tobin, an arrest war- Victim: Angelika Kluk was raped rant was granted on November 3, 2005. and murdered by Peter Tobin Mrs Bain said ‘despite extensive police inquiries’, Tobin was only found sound reason for thinking that they are after Miss Kluk’s body was recovered deliberately evading the police, they should be named and shamed. There should be a website where photos of ‘Tobin ruined my these people can be seen by the public.’ Tobin’s latest court appearance life – he is pure evil’ comes just a week after he launched a bid to challenge both his unanimous murder conviction and his life sentence from St Patrick’s on September 29, last for Miss Kluk’s killing. year. He had been hiding in a hospital using the alias James Kelly. The jury had heard how his victim had been gagged and bound and that Donald Findlay QC, defending, said her killer had fractured her skull by Tobin’s attempts to start a new life on bludgeoning her six times with a table his release from jail in 2004 had been leg. She had also been raped and hampered by fears his background as a stabbed 16 times in the chest. sex offender was about to be revealed. Following the guilty verdict, trial Tobin believed life in Paisley was judge Lord Menzies described Tobin’s ‘untenable’ and moved to Glasgow crime as an atrocity. where he used the name Pat McLaugh- Tobin, who is being held at Edin- lin to hide his past. burgh’s Saughton prison, is expected Sentencing him, Lord Malcolm said it to serve most of his sentence in was clearly in the public interest that Aberdeenshire’s Peterhead prison. police were aware of the whereabouts Last night, Strathclyde Police of sex offenders. insisted that all avenues were explored Scottish Tory justice spokesman Bill in the hunt for Tobin. Aitken said the Tobin case proved the A spokesman said: ‘After he moved need for a radical shake-up of the Sex from Paisley and failed to notify police Offenders’ Register. of his new address, Strathclyde Police He called for sex offenders to be elec- went to extensive lengths to try to tronically tagged and said those on the trace him, including liaising with other run should have their identities posted forces and agencies. on the Internet. ‘However, he was a determined indi- He said: ‘The operation of the Sex vidual who went to great lengths to Offenders’ Register legislation has not evade arrest, including the use of worked in this case. Sex offenders are multiple aliases and dozens of mobile a cunning breed – if they do not wish to phones, and moving around constantly.’ be found, they will not be found. [email protected] ‘Where people disappear and there is Comment – Page 14 Sex offenders cleared to work with children SCORES of dangerous criminals, By James Slack including sex offenders, were cleared to work with children because of yesterday Police Minister Tony Home Office blunders. McNulty said the true total was 2,198 – The disclosure came in an update on including 255 sex offenders. the true scale of the overseas criminal Subsequent checks revealed that 89 conviction scandal. of the convicts had been given a clean Four times more offenders than pre- bill of health by the Criminal Records viously admitted did not have details Bureau when applying for jobs. of crimes committed abroad entered Mr McNulty said 72 of those in the most serious category – which on the Police National Computer. includes drug dealers, kidnappers and Dozens of the criminals involved robbers – had gained employment. have reoffended since returning to Fifty-two are still in their posts. Britain – at least 21 so seriously that Three people convicted of sex they are currently in prison. Critics offences were passed by the bureau, said that if police had known about the one of whom was convicted of ‘sexual overseas convictions, some of the touching of a child under 16’ and went crimes could have been prevented. on to work as a chess coach. Ministers initially said that only 540 The other two worked as a sports serious criminals were left off the coach and in a hospital. All three have computer by bungling officials. But since left their posts. Daily Mail, Wednesday, May 23, 2007 S1 Page 11 let him escape? Police will dig up killer’s garden in hunt for Vicky

Mystery: Vicky Hamilton, right, was seen near Tobin’s former home, above

POLICE are to dig up the By Gavin Madeley what happened to Vicky, then the garden of a house once occu- police must be allowed to get on with pied by Peter Tobin in a bid to whole thing. Seven thousand people their job.’ were interviewed in Bathgate and Neighbours disclosed that police solve the 16-year-old case nobody knew anything.’ officers carried out door-to-door inves- of missing schoolgirl Vicky The house’s garden is partly paved tigations after it was revealed Tobin Hamilton. while the rest is covered in grass, had lived in the area with his then wife Tobin was jailed for life earlier where the present owners Gary and Cathy Wilson and son Daniel in 1991. Jacqueline Dyet are often seen playing Caroline Radka, a 26-year-old this month for the brutal killing of mother of one whose back green looks 23-year-old Angelika Kluk follow- with their young son. While the search takes place, police directly on to Tobin’s former garden, ing a six-week trial at the High said: ‘The police have been round Court in Edinburgh. will take legal possession of the Dyets’ home and the family will be rehoused asking questions about Tobin and Detectives later confirmed they in temporary accommodation. whether I remembered him living in intended to question Tobin over the the neighbourhood. disappearance of 15-year-old Vicky in The couple only moved in last year, unaware of the previous owner who ‘I have only been in the house for five 1991. years, so it’s way before my time. She was last seen alive waiting for left the area in the early 1990s. Last night, the Dyets declined to ‘It’s frightening to think something a bus in the town of like that could have happened on my comment on the matter. A woman who Bathgate. At the time the teenager doorstep.’ went missing, Tobin, now 60, lived at a Mrs Radka’s next-door neighbour, house in Robertson Avenue, close to ‘Very distressing Elizabeth Barr, 80, said: ‘I have lived the bus stop. here for almost 20 years and only The Scottish Daily Mail can disclose for the family’ found out a couple of weeks ago that that police are pursuing a theory that the house behind was Peter Tobin’s. I Tobin may have murdered Vicky at the got the shock of my life when I heard. house and buried her body under his answered the door, believed to be Mrs ‘I remember the family when they back lawn. Dyet, looked upset at the mention of lived there, but all I knew about it was Teams of forensics experts from Tobin’s name and hastily retreated there was a man and a woman who Lothian and Borders Police will exca- back into the house. had a young child. vate the property over the next couple A police source said later: ‘This is a ‘They were the kind of people that of weeks in an effort to finally solve the very distressing situation for the you pass in the street and say hello to, mystery of the youngster’s disappear- family. They are a young couple with a but that was all.’ ance. They will also sweep the interior young child. They bought this house Vicky, who would now be 32, was last of the end-terrace house for clues. with no idea about its past connec- seen in Bathgate on February 10, 1991, Last night, Vicky’s father Michael, 56, tions and have made it into a lovely waiting for a bus to take her home to from , Stirlingshire, said: ‘This family home. Falkirk. A few weeks later, her purse has been the best bit of news in the ‘They have no connection with Peter was found at Edinburgh bus station, past 16 years as far as I’m concerned. Tobin and are worried about what but this was the last trace of her. Guilty: Tobin arrives ‘As far as the CID are concerned, this their neighbours will think and what In November last year, a ‘cold case’ at the High Court in is a breakthrough. Hopefully we are their friends will think. police squad announced they were Edinburgh yesterday going to get somewhere with this one. ‘But they took the very sensible view treating the case as a murder inquiry. Tobin has been the real object of this that if there was a chance of solving [email protected]