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Tobin cops widen hunt in Brighton

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Detectives searching the gardens of two of serial killer Peter Tobin’s former homes have moved their hunt to inside the properties.

Tobin lived at the addresses, in Brighton, during the early 1980s when a number of local women went missing.

Police have concentrated on the cellar of Ye Olde Tearoom in the Portslade district, run by Tobin in 1988 and where he lived with his future wife, Cathy Wilson, and their baby son.

One neighbour told police he was shown a tiny gold bracelet that Tobin claimed had been embedded in an old fireplace he was working on in the former junk shop.

Police believe Tobin, 63, took jewellery as trophies from his unidentified victims.

Neighbours also reported that Tobin often had foreign students as lodgers in a flat adjoining the shop, where he had carried out a substantial amount of DIY work and cleared the garden.

Police are also examining the inside of the former Seafront Hotel in Marine Parade, Brighton, where Tobin is said to have worked as a caretaker and handyman.

Tobin is currently serving three life sentences, for the murders of Polish student Angelika Kluk, Bathgate schoolgirl Vicky Hamilton and Essex teenager Dinah McNicol.