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Police investigating the disappearance of a teenage girl 16 years ago have been unable to identify human remains found at a house in Kent. Police investigating a teenager's disappearance 16 years ago have been unable to identify human remains found at a house in Kent.
Essex Police, leading the inquiry, say they have found personal effects which do not tally with information about the missing girl, Dinah McNicol. The remains were found by police looking for Dinah McNicol, from Essex, who vanished aged 18, in August 1991.
UK police are being asked to provide information about Peter Tobin, a former owner of the Margate house. Essex Police found personal effects at the Margate house which they said did not tally with information about Dinah.
Dinah McNicol, 18, from Tillingham, Essex, vanished in August 1991. Police are being asked to provide information about Peter Tobin, a former owner of the property.
She was last seen alone in a car with an unknown man on the M25 in Surrey, after leaving a music festival at Liphook, Hants. It is being reported that the Scot, who is now in his 60s, is being linked with inquiries into a number of murders in the UK.
The team investigating her disappearance have been concentrating on the back garden of the Margate house where they have found human remains. Dinah was last seen alone in a car with an unknown man on the M25 in Surrey, after leaving a music festival at Liphook, Hampshire.
A post-mortem examination has confirmed that the remains are those of a female but it does not reveal who she was or how she died. Examination inconclusive
It is understood that the house in Margate was once owned by a Scot, now in his 60s, called Peter Tobin. The team investigating her disappearance have been concentrating on the back garden of the house.
A police Homicide Working Group has asked forces across the UK to investigate his movements over the past two decades. A post-mortem examination has confirmed that the remains are those of a female but it did not reveal who she was or how she died.
A police Homicide Working Group has asked forces across the UK to investigate Tobin's movements over the past two decades.