The corpse found in the garden of a house in Kent was confirmed by the police as being Vicky Hamilton’s, the missing school girl. The garden was of the former home of odd-job man Peter Tobin, police said.

The school girl from Redding, close to Falkirk, went missing 16 years ago when she was 15 and here body was recently found while the police was searching for another teenager who also went missing 16 years ago. The other missing teenager girl was Dinah McNicol, who was 18 when she didn’t return to her home in Essex after a trip to Hampshire and was never seen since.

Along with the human remains, police investigators have also found personal items thought to be jewelry and clothing in the garden, thus realizing that they had found Vicky and not Dinah as they had thought in the first place.

Vicky disappeared from Bathgate in February 1991. There she was last seen as she was waiting for a bus. Her disappearance is being probed by Lothian and Borders detectives, who launched a review of the case last year.

"Lothian and Borders Police can confirm that the body found in the house in Margate, Kent on November 12 is that of Vicky Hamilton.A man was arrested in July 2007 and charged in connection with the disappearance of Vicky Hamilton and a report submitted to the procurator fiscal," A Lothian and Borders Police spokesman said.

In July 2007, police has arrested and charged Scotsman Peter Tobin over the disappearance of Vicky.

The English police are investigating a series of various other deaths to see if there is any connection with that of Vicky Hamilton.