UK Police resume house search after finding bodies
November 19, 2007 - 0:0
LONDON (Reuters) -- British police resumed their search on Saturday at a house where they have already found the bodies of two teenage girls who went missing 16 years ago.
Handyman Peter Tobin, 61, said by media to have once owned the house, has appeared in court accused of murdering 15-year-old Vicky Hamilton, whose body was found there on last Monday.On Friday, detectives found remains of a body they believe to be that of Dinah McNicol, who was 18 when she vanished after failing to return home.
""The body appears to be that of a woman and the height, clothing and jewellery found with the body are consistent with that of Dinah McNicol,"" Assistant Chief Constable Peter Lowton said, adding that formal identification would take some time.
McNicol's father has been informed of the discovery at the house in the seaside resort town of Margate, southeast England.
""I have had a call from the police and they seem to think they might have found Dinah,"" her father Ian was quoted by the BBC as saying.
""I will be absolutely elated if they have. It will mean we will be able to grieve as a family.""
McNicol never reached her home in Essex after leaving the music festival at Liphook, Hampshire, in the summer of 1991.
Hamilton's remains were found in a sandpit in the house's garden, police have said.
Tobin has appeared at a private hearing at Linlithgow Sheriff Court in Scotland accused of Hamilton's murder.