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25.09.2022 - 07:13 / dailyrecord.co.uk
David Swindle was the formidable detective who tirelessly led the investigation into Peter Tobin and unravelled his trail of murder.
Now that the serial killer is lying frail and ill in a hospital bed, Swindle holds on to a hope that clues about his other victims will now be disclosed.
But the retired detective superintendent with Strathclyde Police who caught Tobin doubts the evil murderer will show any humanity.
Swindle, 67, has no doubt Tobin has killed multiple times.
He told the Sunday Mail: “Tobin is withholding information. He knows what he’s done. He definitely killed other people, I have no doubt about it.
“We hoped he’d never take his secrets to the grave and maybe he can find some sort of humanity to say what he’s done with other victims.
“I hate to say it but he might even be proud of it.”
After Tobin’s 2007 conviction for the rape and murder of 23-year-old Polish student Angelika Kluk, Swindle became convinced he had killed before.
His police interviews, age and method of killing resulted in the creation of a unique taskforce called Operation Anagram, which looked at every aspect of the killer’s life.
A trail of clues led Swindle’s team first to the home in West Lothian where Tobin had lived when Vicky Hamilton disappeared in 1991. Then to his former home at Irvine Drive in Margate, Kent, where he moved to in 1991.
In Margate forensic investigators unearthed the remains of two missing teenagers – Vicky Hamilton, 15, and Dinah McNicol, 18.
Swindle believes Tobin’s tactic of targeting vulnerable women and burying their bodies is why more victims have not been found.
He said: “You just don’t know what else he’s been responsible for because he’s never said anything.
“There was an article years ago that said he’d killed
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