The church where serial killer Peter Tobin dumped a victim’s body is set to be converted into flats or a hotel.
Sick Tobin used St Patrick’s in Anderston, Glasgow, to hide Polish student Angelika Kluk in 2006. The fiend was a handyman at the Catholic chapel and hid the 23-year-old's body beneath the floorboards in an underground chamber next to the confession box.
But 17 years on, the building’s owners say they’re shutting due to a dwindling congregation, and hope developers will snap it up as a hotel or housing opportunity.
Last night one spooked local said: "Tobin's crimes will never be forgotten. It seems like the last place anyone would want to spend a night." A notice on the church website says: "Sadly, we are now facing the situation that the future of our church and parish is not good and we can expect the church to close.
"The Archdiocesan estates department is now looking at options for the future of the building, including looking for planning permission for uses such as conversion to flats or a hotel. The money that is made by selling the property will be divided between the neighbouring parishes."
Convicted sex offender Tobin, who died in 2022 aged 76, was serving a whole life order at HM Prison Edinburgh for three murders. The High Court in Edinburgh heard how the young woman had been bludgeoned repeatedly and stabbed 16 times in the chest before her body was dumped in the church.
Tobin murdered schoolgirl Vicky Hamilton, 15, and Dinah McNicol, 18, from Essex, in 1991 and buried them in the garden of his home in Margate, Kent. But their bodies were not to be discovered until 2007.
