"Probe launched
into death of serial killer and rapist Peter Tobin
who died after suffering a fall in his prison cell.
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It is impossible to know many women he raped and killed over his life, but criminologists think the true number is likely to be far higher than three.
Officers believe Tobin will have killed others and had at least 40 aliases and 150 cars during his life to hide his tracks as he targeted vulnerable women.
If the reported 48 number is accurate, it is thought that would make him the second-worst identified serial killer in the UK in modern times, behind Dr Harold Shipman, who is thought to have killed around 250.
Today, the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service announced a probe into this death because it occurred after he fell in his cell on September 8, 2022 at HMP Edinburgh.
He died on October 8, 2022 at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary and his ashes were scattered at sea -
despite Miss Hamilton's father pleading for the ashes to be sent to him so he could flush them down the toilet."
An investigation has been launched into the death of notorious serial killer and rapist Peter Tobin, 76, after he died following a fall in his prison cell in HMP Edinburgh.
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