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Second body is missing girl Dinah | Second body is missing girl Dinah |
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A second body found at a house in Kent is that of missing teenager Dinah McNicol, police believe. | |
The 18-year-old's remains were found in the garden at the Margate house on Friday and her family informed. | The 18-year-old's remains were found in the garden at the Margate house on Friday and her family informed. |
Ms McNicol failed to return home to Tillingham in Essex from a trip to Hampshire in 1991. | |
Peter Tobin, 61, has been charged in Scotland with the murder of Vicky Hamilton, 15, from Stirlingshire, whose body was found at the house on Monday. | |
Vicky, from Redding, near Falkirk, was last seen in Bathgate, West Lothian, in 1991. | |
Dinah's father Ian has been informed, although formal identification has yet to take place ACC Peter Lowton, Essex Police | |
Police have been searching the house and garden in Irvine Drive all week. | |
Vicky's body was found in the sandpit in the back garden. | |
Assistant Chief Constable Peter Lowton, of Essex Police, said Ms McNicol's body was found close to the patio. | Assistant Chief Constable Peter Lowton, of Essex Police, said Ms McNicol's body was found close to the patio. |
He said the height of the body, clothing, and jewellery, was consistent with it being that of missing Dinah. | He said the height of the body, clothing, and jewellery, was consistent with it being that of missing Dinah. |
"Dinah's father Ian has been informed, although formal identification has yet to take place," he added. |