Tillingham: 'I can't wait for monster to die' (From Maldon and Burnham Standard)

Tillingham: 'I can't wait for monster to die'

11:00am Monday 20th August 2012 in Local News By Gareth Burton

The father of a murdered teenager claims doctors should have let her killer die after he was allegedly rushed to hospital after a suspected heart attack.

Convicted serial killer Peter Tobin is behind bars in Edinburgh for the murder of Dinah McNicol, 18, of Tillingham, who was abducted in 1991 and whose body was found at Tobin’s Kent home in 2007.

He is also serving life sentences for killing Vicky Hamilton, 15, of Falkirk, and for the rape and murder of 23-year-old Polish student Angelika Kluk.

A Scottish newspaper claimed Tobin, 65, was rushed from his cell to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary after suffering from chest pains and collapsing, unable to breathe,sparking suggestions he had suffered a heart attack.

The next day a Scottish Prison Service spokesman confirmed an inmate from Saughton Prison was taken to hospital, but said it was against policy to comment on individual prisoners.

He also indicated that the inmate was no longer in hospital.

Miss McNicol’s father, Ian, 73, who still lives in Tillingham, said Tobin should have been left to die.

He added: “The sooner he goes the better. The man’s a monster."

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