The Vicky Hamilton murder trial has been shown dozens of photographs taken during the excavation of a house in Margate where her remains were found.

Jurors at the High Court in Dundee also heard that the man accused of killing her lived at 50 Irvine Drive, where police uncovered her body, cut in two, last year.

David Martin, who has lived next door at 52 Irvine Drive for more than 30 years, gave evidence on day 10 of the trial.

He identified the defendant, 62-year-old Peter Tobin, in the dock and confirmed he had spoken to him during his tenancy.

Prosecutor Frank Mulholland QC told the trial that, according to tenancy records, Peter Tobin had lived at 50 Irvine Drive between March 25 and December 15, 1991.

Forensic archaeologist Lucy Sibun, who was involved in an excavation of part of the garden where Vicky's remains were discovered, described how she and her colleagues dug through layers of soil, before encountering a layer of concrete and a number of black plastic bags further down.

Pictures of the dig were shown to the jury but many were not displayed on screens in the public gallery after Mr Mulholland issued a warning about their sensitive nature.

Vicky apparently disappeared in Bathgate, West Lothian, on February 10, 1991 on her way home to Redding, near Falkirk.

Tobin denies abducting her and taking her to his former home in Robertson Avenue, Bathgate. It is alleged that, there or elsewhere, he drugged, indecently assaulted and murdered her.

He is also accused of attempting to defeat the ends of justice between February 10 and December 15, 1991 in Bathgate, Edinburgh, Margate and elsewhere. He is charged with concealing Vicky's body, cutting it in two, and transporting and burying the parts.

Tobin denies all the charges against him and says he was in the Portsmouth area and travelling to Scotland when the schoolgirl vanished.

The case continues.