Serial killer and sex beast Peter Tobin who beat, raped and killed young students given taxpayer-funded funeral

SICK serial killer Peter Tobin who beat, raped and killed several young female students, was given a taxpayer-funded funeral, The Sun can reveal.

The despised sex beast died in hospital aged 76 after years of health struggles on October 8.

His last moments were spent alone, chained to a hospital bed, watched over only by a pair of prison officers as his life ebbed away.

Now it’s been revealed he was also cremated alone – and nearly £700 in taxpayer money was used to lay the evil killer to rest.

Brits forked out £683 for his funeral “package” – which included £69 worth of admin fees, a £250 coffin and his cremation which set them back £364.

His ashes were secretly dumped at sea after no family members came forward to claim his body.

It comes after the dad of Vicky Hamilton – one of Tobin’s known victims – made a plea asking for the 76-year-old’s ashes to be released to him so he could flush them down the toilet

Tobin was serving life for the murders of Vicky, Angelika Kluk, and Dinah McNicol, with many more victims suspected.

The maniac took with him to the grave a litany of dark secrets including the names and whereabouts of other victims thought to have died at his merciless hands.

Tobin is understood to be one of the UK’s worst serial offenders whose rap sheet includes burglary, forgery, rape and murder.

He’d spent a lifetime committing crimes all over Britain – including sex attacks on two teen girls – before his face became seared into the public consciousness following his 2007 conviction for the slaughter of Polish student Angelika.

In September 2006, he had been working as a ‘handyman’ at St Patrick’s Church in Glasgow’s Anderston under the fake name Pat McLaughlin.

Tobin – who used many aliases to cover his tracks – pounced on the 23-year-old before beating, raping and stabbing her to death then hiding her corpse under church floorboards.

He was found guilty at the High Court in Edinburgh and given life with Judge Lord Menzies branding Tobin “an evil man”.

The case open the floodgates on Tobin’s past and the following year he was nailed for the murder of 15-year-old school girl Vicky who vanished from a bus stop in Bathgate in 1991.

Her remains were unearthed by cops carrying out a detailed search of Tobin’s former home in Irvine Drive, Margate, Kent, along with the body of a third victim, Dinah McNicol.

Like Vicky, Dinah, 18, hadn’t been seen since 1991 when she hitched a lift with Tobin after leaving a music festival in Hampshire.

Tobin was given two more life sentences but has always refused to cooperate with cops probing other crimes linked to the brute.

Edinburgh City Council said: “The remains of Peter Tobin were cremated in accordance with the requirements of Section 87 of the Burials and Cremation (Scotland) Act 2016.

“Ashes from the cremation were dispersed into the sea. The Council’s thoughts are with the victims of his crimes and their loved ones.”