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Police searches are continuing at a house in Kent where the body of a girl who disappeared in 1991 was found.Police searches are continuing at a house in Kent where the body of a girl who disappeared in 1991 was found.
Officers were conducting house-to-house inquiries as part of investigations into another missing person, Dinah McNicol, from Essex.Officers were conducting house-to-house inquiries as part of investigations into another missing person, Dinah McNicol, from Essex.
The body of Vicky Hamilton, 15, who went missing in Scotland 16 years ago, was found at the address in Margate.The body of Vicky Hamilton, 15, who went missing in Scotland 16 years ago, was found at the address in Margate.
Peter Tobin, 61, and from Scotland, has been charged by police in connection with Vicky's death. Peter Tobin, 61, and from Scotland, was charged with her murder at Linlithgow Sheriff Court on Thursday.
Mr Tobin, who once lived at the Margate property, is due to appear at Linlithgow Sheriff Court. Mr Tobin once lived in the Margate house where human remains and personal items later identified as Vicky's were discovered on Monday.
Vicky's body, which was found on Monday, was identified after human remains and personal items were discovered at the house.
Dinah McNicol disappeared on her way home to Essex in 1991
A search there led by Essex Police had originally focused on Ms McNicol, who was 18 when she failed to return home from a trip to Hampshire in 1991.A search there led by Essex Police had originally focused on Ms McNicol, who was 18 when she failed to return home from a trip to Hampshire in 1991.
The force's Det Supt Tim Wills said: "We had reasons to come here. Those reasons still exist. We came here for Dinah. And we haven't yet finished. Dinah McNicol disappeared on her way home to Essex in 1991
"Officers will be continuing to conduct house-to-house inquiries close to the scene. The force's Det Supt Tim Wills said he expected garden excavations to continue over the weekend, with a detailed and forensic search of the entire property set to last into next week.
"I'm still keen for local people to cast their minds back to the summer of 1991. "As of now nothing extra of significance has been found," he said on Thursday.
"The focus of this investigation is still on this era, when Dinah disappeared." "At the moment police search officers are working with archaeologists, removing in sections all the topsoil down to the subsoil.
He added that they were using ground-penetrating radar on the site. "That makes it a lot easier for the archaeologists to indicate where they might be interested in what's gone on underneath."
Det Supt Wills added there was still a chance more remains could be found, and that he believed Dinah McNicol was "linked to this house in some way".
"I'm hopeful we can bring some answers to Dinah's family, and I think she might be here," he said.
The police searches have also included using ground-penetrating radar in the garden and house.