Man in court after find of teenage girl's remains

A man is due in a Scottish court on Thursday following the discovery of remains of a teenage girl who vanished 16 years ago at a house in Kent.

Lothian and Borders Police said on Wednesday the remains were those of 15-year-old Vicky Hamilton, who disappeared from Bathgate, West Lothian, in 1991.

Police said an unnamed man had been arrested and charged with Hamilton's disappearance in July.

The discovery was made as police carry out a nationwide investigation into unsolved cases of missing girls.

Media reports said the house in Margate where the remains were found once belonged to Peter Tobin, a 61-year-old handyman.

Detectives had been investigating whether the remains found at the house were those of another teenager, Dinah McNicol.

She was 18 when she vanished after failing to return to her home in Essex after a music festival in Liphook, Hampshire, in the summer of 1991.

She was last seen hitching a lift with a man on the M25 motorway. Neither the driver nor the car has ever been traced.

Essex Police said they would continue searching the house in Margate for another week.

"I do not intend to leave the house until I am fully satisfied that there are not any other human remains at the site," said Detective Superintendent Tim Wills.