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20/11/2007
Margate Body Search Winds Down
The search for bodies at a house in Margate, Kent, where the remains of two missing teenage girls were found last week is winding down.
The body of 15-year-old Vicky Hamilton was found at the house last Monday and a body which is believed to be that of 18-year-old Dinah McNicol was found there last Friday.
Essex Police Detective Superintendent Tim Wills said that no more bodies were expected to be found at the property. He said: "We are looking for evidence now rather than people. That could be just a very small thing."
Formal identification of the body, which is believed to be that of Dinah McNicol, has also still to take place.
Both Vicky Hamilton and Dinah McNicol vanished in 1991 - Vicky, from Redding, near Falkirk, was last seen waiting for a bus in Bathgate in February, while Dinah, from Tillingham in Essex, disappeared after attending a music festival in Liphook in Hampshire in August.
Peter Tobin, 61, who used to live in the house where the bodies were found, has been charged with Vicky Hamilton's murder. He appeared before Linlithgow Sheriff Court last Thursday.
Police are examining a number of other unsolved cases following the discovery of the bodies in the Margate house.
(KMcA)
The body of 15-year-old Vicky Hamilton was found at the house last Monday and a body which is believed to be that of 18-year-old Dinah McNicol was found there last Friday.
Essex Police Detective Superintendent Tim Wills said that no more bodies were expected to be found at the property. He said: "We are looking for evidence now rather than people. That could be just a very small thing."
Formal identification of the body, which is believed to be that of Dinah McNicol, has also still to take place.
Both Vicky Hamilton and Dinah McNicol vanished in 1991 - Vicky, from Redding, near Falkirk, was last seen waiting for a bus in Bathgate in February, while Dinah, from Tillingham in Essex, disappeared after attending a music festival in Liphook in Hampshire in August.
Peter Tobin, 61, who used to live in the house where the bodies were found, has been charged with Vicky Hamilton's murder. He appeared before Linlithgow Sheriff Court last Thursday.
Police are examining a number of other unsolved cases following the discovery of the bodies in the Margate house.
(KMcA)
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