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Human remains found in the garden of a house in Kent are of those of missing teenager Vicky Hamilton, police said. | Human remains found in the garden of a house in Kent are of those of missing teenager Vicky Hamilton, police said. |
The remains were uncovered in a police investigation at the property in Margate on Tuesday afternoon. | The remains were uncovered in a police investigation at the property in Margate on Tuesday afternoon. |
A spokesman for Lothian and Borders Police confirmed that the body is that of the missing 15-year-old. | |
Scotsman Peter Tobin was arrested and charged in July 2007 over Vicky's disappearance - the girl from Falkirk, Stirlingshire, had not been seen 1991. | |
Vicky was last seen waiting for a bus in Bathgate, West Lothian, on 10 February 1991. | |
Houses searched | |
A review of the case into Vicky's disappearance was launched by Lothian and Borders Police last year. | |
In October a house in Southsea, Hampshire, was searched by officers from the force investigating Vicky's disappearance. | |
At the house in Kent, police had initially thought the remains could be those of missing Essex teenager Dinah McNicol. | |
The 18-year-old had failed to return to her home in Essex after a trip to Hampshire, also in 1991. |