4 NEWS OF THE WORLD, December 20, 2009 1S 1S NEWS OF THE WORLD, December 20, 2009 5 PAIN OF FATHERS ANGUISH OF DINAH McNICOL’S DAD AS HE PUT OFF LIFE-SAVING OP UNITED BY GRIEF EXCLUSIVEEXCLUSIVE FIEND NAILED BY NICOLA STOW Aug 27 1946: Peter Britton DISTRAUGHT dads Ian McNicol really knows what I’ve been Tobin born in Renfrewshire. and Michael Hamilton fight back through.He has become a great THE father of murdered Aug 6 1969: Tobin marries tears and embrace each other pal over the last two years. I Margaret Mountney, 17. She — brought together in grief. feel his pain and he feels mine.” teenager Dinah McNicol The two men were reunited Ian and Michael first met says he raped and stabbed this week after Peter Tobin was when Vicky and Dinah’s bodies told last night how he her. Marriage ends when he is caged for murdering Dinah in were found buried in the garden risked his own life to see jailed for burglary. 1991 — six months after killing of Peter Tobin’s former home in her twisted killer Peter I risked Michael’s daughter Vicky, 15. Margate, Kent, in 2007. 1973: Tobin freed. He weds And Michael, 59, made the The monster was convicted of Tobin brought to justice. Sylvia Jefferies, 30. Marriage 900-mile round trip from his Vicky’s murder at the High Court As the serial sex fiend was lasts three years. She says he home in Redding, near Falkirk, in Dundee last December. finally caged for the sickening to offer his friend support. Dad-of-four Michael said: “I’m tried to strangle her . Glasgow-born Ian revealed: delighted Ian finally has justice. crime, heartbroken Glaswegian Aug 26 1986: Ian McNicol detailed for the Tobin marries “We’ve spent many a night just “And I hope he can feel some Cathy Wilson, 16. They move crying on the phone for hours. relief that Tobin will NEVER get first time the all-consuming “Michael is the only one who out of jail.” SUPPORT: Ian and Michael this week grief that has torn him apart to Bathgate, West Lothian, in since his precious daughter 1990 and have a son, Daniel. vanished 18 years ago. She soon fl ees with the boy. In an exclusive interview with the death to Feb 10 1991: Vicky Hamilton News of the World, he revealed how he POSTPONED lifesaving heart goes missing while waiting for surgery because he feared he would a bus in Bathgate. die under the knife and be robbed SCHOOLGIRL: Dinah aged eight Mar 21 1991: Tobin moves to of the satisfaction of seeing Tobin Margate with Vicky’s body in being found guilty. Voice quivering with emotion, Ian, the back of his van. 70, whispered: “The hospital said I Aug 5 1991: Dinah McNicol was to have immediate surgery. But vanishes after Tobin picks there was no way I could agree until I knew Tobin had his day in court. I her up as she hitchhikes back thought I’d probably die in theatre from a concert in Hampshire and never see him convicted. see evil May 1994: “I couldn’t bear that. That would Tobin is jailed mean he’d won — so I put it off and for 14 years for the kidnap, hoped for the best.” drugging and violent sexual Tobin was this week sentenced to spend the rest of his life in jail, but assault of two 14-year-old girls Ian believes the vile monster deserves in Havant, Hampshire. the DEATH penalty. May 2004: Freed on parole. JOKER: Dinah with brother’s car Hanged Sept 24-29 2006: Tobin rapes and stabs to death Angelika “I would be the hangman,” he said, anger etched across his face. Kluk and dumps her body “I just want him dead. My Dinah was scumbag under the fl oor of St Patrick’s a beautiful, kind, intelligent girl. She church in Glasgow. had so much to give to the world and she didn’t deserve to be killed. Oct 2006: Arrested at a “That scumbag cut her life short London hospital after a staff just as it was beginning—and for that CAGED TOBIN: he doesn’t deserve to live. I would like Cops believe he member recognises him from to see him hanged in public. I would has killed even a police alert. be the executioner and I’d do it very, more young girls May 4 2007: Jailed for life very slowly.” Ian put off his vital heart op for the for the ‘inhuman’ and ‘evil’ first time in January, 14 months after murder of Angelika. Dinah’s remains were found in bin Nov 14 2007: Police search- bags, buried under Tobin’s garden in Tobin ing Tobin’s Margate house Margate, Kent. She had been drugged, bound and strangled. fi nd Vicky’s remains. And it was delayed again when Nov 16 2007: Police fi Tobin’s original trial stalled in June nd Di- because HE was ill. nah’s body in same garden. Ian, who can be seen being inter- June 2009: Tobin’s trial at viewed at notw.co.uk, told us: “He Chelmsford Crown Court is faked a heart attack on the way to court in an attempt to delay his trial. halted after he falls ill. They had to take him to hospital and Dec 14 2009: MURDERED: Trial re-starts. then he really got shingles. Dec 16 2009: “I did get some satisfaction out of Dinah was 18 Tobin found that, but what really got me was that INNOCENT: Dinah as a teenager convicted VICTIM: Vicky VICTIM: Angelika guilty of Dinah’s murder by my illness is genuine. I’ve put off unanimous verdict. life-saving surgery while he’s faking flesh and blood.’ I felt physically sick. David Tremlett, up on the A3. After more killings — knows what really death in a car crash. Dad Ian had to came crashing down around me. I heart attacks.” dropping David off, Tobin drugged happened, and he has always refused endure 16 years of not knowing thought, ‘Not Dinah too. I’ve already It was really tough and, of course, I “Every time we heard a body had But this week Ian finally got his to detail his appalling crimes. where his Dinah was. wanted to cry. But there’s no way I Dinah with painkiller amitriptyline lost Judy. I can’t lose my daughter. been found, we’d immediately think wish. A jury at Chelmsford Crown But he forced Dinah to reveal the He was left only with memories could let him see me weep. Tobin will and throttled her. She HAS to come home’. it was Dinah. Court took just 13 minutes to find evil pin number for her cash card and and a gnawing sense that somehow never see me shed a tear. Her body was not found until No- “It wasn’t in her character to run “My emotions were all over the Tobin, 63, guilty of the 1991 killing. drained her account. HE was to blame. “I’d just like five minutes face to vember 2007 — after Tobin was jailed away. I remember my last conversa- place. Part of me would be hoping it The judge ordered that the fiend — Among the cash he stole was the Recalling the awful moment when face with him—with him forced to look for the rape and murder of Polish tion with her. I kissed her goodbye was her — because then at least we’d born in Johnstone, Renfrewshire, and £2,700 compensation the youngster police told him his daughter was at me. Then I’d stare into his eyes. I student Angelika Kluk in Glasgow. and told her to stay in touch. know what had happened to her — already serving life for two other wouldn’t say anything, just stare. Just yards away from Dinah in his got after her mother Judith’s 1980 missing, Ian said: “My whole world “I blamed myself for so long. I murders — will DIE behind bars. but at the same time I’d feel relieved “I want to look into the last eyes that garden, cops found the raped and thought I had failed as a parent, that when it wasn’t because maybe that Ian, who now lives in Tillingham, saw Dinah alive. And he’d have butchered body of Vicky in another I shouldn’t have let her go to the meant she was still alive. Essex, said: “Words can’t re- to look at me, the father of shallow grave. concert. Tobin actually led me to “I never really gave up hope until ally describe how I felt as I Sobbing, onetime jazz guitarist Ian VIGIL: At beach where the girl he killed, and I’d ashes were scattered believe it was my fault. she was found. Dinah had a front sat in that courtroom, so watch him squirm.” said: “I can’t bring myself to think “I even planned suicide after the door key, so I decided I would never close to the scum who Tobin’s fate will not about what Tobin did to Dinah. eighth anniversary of her disappear- move — just in case she came home. took my Dinah away. I end father-of-five Ian’s Images ance. I told myself I would take “I wanted her to know I’d always felt every emotion. suffering — or dim the enough pills to wipe out a village, be here for her.” “Every now and then I horrible memories of “I hope she died quickly because I washed down with champagne.