‘He was a monster and I’m glad he’s dead’: Ex-wife of serial killer Peter Tobin blasts former lover

The ex-wife of serial killer and pedophile Peter Tobin, who once boasted that he killed 48 women, said she’s glad he’s dead.

Cathy Wilson, 52, joined the heartbreak of the families of suspected victims after Tobin chose to take his secrets to the grave.

That means many loved ones of potential murder victims will never know for sure what happened to them.

Wilson told the Sunday Mirror: ‘He was a monster and there is a sense of relief that he is now dead.

“But the strongest emotion we have is grief for the families of girls and young women who have disappeared and know that Tobin was the likely culprit, but now have to accept that they will never get the answers they so desperately want.”

Valerie Earl, mother of the murdered Jessie, also told the paper, “We’ll never know if he killed our daughter.”

Tobin died in an Edinburgh prison while serving a life sentence for raping and murdering Polish student Angelika Kluk, 23, and hiding her body under the floor of a Glasgow church in 2006.

Notorious Scottish serial killer and convicted sex offender Tobin died in an Edinburgh cell

His confirmed victims were (left to right) Angelika Kluk, Vicky Hamilton and Dinah McNicol

Tobin had worked as a handyman at the church, so the police identified him as a suspect. He is considered one of the worst serial killers ever in the UK.

The killer was also serving life sentences for the 1991 murders of 15-year-old schoolgirl Vicky Hamilton, from Redding, near Falkirk, and 18-year-old Dinah McNicol in the same year.

Their bodies were found 17 years later, buried in the garden of his former home in Margate, Kent.

He was previously convicted of raping two 14-year-old girls in 1993.

Tobin was also convicted of raping two 14-year-old girls in 1993 – and murdered upon release

Vicky’s family, upon hearing the news of Tobin’s death, said, “He no longer deserves our family’s thoughts.”

Scotland Police have confirmed he died at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary at 6:04pm on Saturday.

They said the death was not treated as suspicious and a report would be filed with the tax attorney.

Retired Chief Inspector David Swindle told the BBC: ‘As far as I’m concerned, Peter Tobin is bad. He is pure evil.

“This is someone who had no respect for humanity.”

He added: “I have no doubt that Peter Tobin killed other people. He is a coward who has taken his secrets to the grave.’

In recent years, huge police hours have been spent assembling the nomadic lifestyle of the loner on the fringes of society, where he hid behind a variety of identities.

Officers believe Tobin may have killed others and had at least 40 aliases and 150 cars in his lifetime to cover his tracks while targeting vulnerable women.

Born in Johnstone, Renfrewshire, in August 1946, Tobin’s criminal life began after he was sent to reform school at the age of seven.

In his teens and early twenties, he served prison terms for burglary, forgery and conspiracy.

Ms Wilson said she was relieved her ex-husband is dead – and that was a ‘monster’

In 1994, he was sentenced to 14 years in prison for a sickening double sexual assault on two schoolgirls in his Hampshire flat.

The girls had traveled to visit a neighbor who was away, so they asked if they could wait at Tobin’s flat.

He held them with a knife, raped them, stabbed one and turned on the gas in his flat, leaving them for dead.

Miraculously, they both survived the attack and Tobin was sentenced to 14 years in prison.

Tobin was also a serial killer, with all three of his former husbands claiming that he repeatedly and viciously attacked them.

The registered sex offender went on the run for nearly a year before killing his first confirmed victim after failing to keep in touch with police after his release from prison.

Angelika, Dinah and Vicky: The Tragic Victims of Peter Tobin

Tobin (above) was sentenced to life in prison for all three murders in separate trials

Until the body of Polish student Angelika Kluk was found in 2006 under the floor of a church in Glasgow where Tobin worked as a handyman, his most serious offense in 1994 was the rape of two young girls, for which he received a 14-year sentence.

After his arrest for Angelika’s murder, police began investigating Tobin’s past life and found the bodies of Vicky Hamilton and Dinah McNicol in a shallow grave in his former home in Margate, Kent.

Hitchhiker Dinah had just completed her A-levels in 1991 and was hitchhiking with a man she had befriended at a music festival.

The thrice-married father of two, Tobin, was visiting his son in Portsmouth and had picked them up.

He dropped the man off at the M25 and no one has seen Dinah again.

Tobin’s appearance and car matched Mrs. McNicol’s girlfriend’s description of the man who had given them a lift.

Her body was found tied up and gagged a few feet from another teenage victim, Vicky Hamilton, who had been snatched in Bathgate, Lothian, when she went home, also in 1991.

Vicky’s body had been cut in half – probably to facilitate transport from Scotland. Both bodies were wrapped in garbage bags with Tobin’s fingerprints.

Miss Hamilton and Miss McNicol’s remains were found to contain traces of an antidepressant that can cause drowsiness and dizziness.

He was sentenced to life in prison for all three murders in separate trials.

Police launched Operation Anagram in 2006 to see if they could link Tobin to hundreds of other unsolved crimes, though the investigation was halted in 2011.