Serial killer Peter Tobin has dropped his appeal against his life sentence for murdering schoolgirl Vicky Hamilton.

The 63-year-old is behind bars for murdering three young women - including Vicky Hamilton and Dinah McNicol, whose remains were found at his Margate home.

His appeal was due to be heard at the High Court in Edinburgh later this week - but it has now been withdrawn by his lawyers.

The father of Dinah McNicol backed a campaign in an attempt to stop her killer from appealing against his sentence.

Tobin, 63, was jailed for life in December for the murder of 18-year-old Dinah, who went missing in August 1991 on her way home to Tillingham, Essex, from a music festival.

A year earlier, Tobin, a handyman from Johnstone, Renfrewshire, was given a life sentence for killing Vicky Hamilton, who disappeared while waiting for a bus in Bathgate, West Lothian, in February 1991.

He had already been convicted of the murder of Polish student Angelika Kluk, whose body he hid in a Glasgow church in 2006.

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