Prayers for death house community

Dinah McNicol (l) and Vicky Hamilton both disappeared in 1991

A prayer service has been held outside the house in Kent where the bodies of two missing girls were found.

Neighbours stood outside the property in Irvine Drive, Margate, in a service led by the Reverend Arthur Houston, of Holy Trinity Church.

The remains of Vicky Hamilton, 15, from Redding near Falkirk, and Dinah McNicol, 18, from Tillingham, Essex, were found in the garden.

The council house has been boarded up following the police investigation.

Mr Houston said he hoped the local community would be able to move on from the events of the past two weeks.

Counselling and support

"We have to work really hard at building the good things we've got as a community, and reflecting a bit on what's happened, and hopefully bringing something positive out of that for all of us, and for the good of all the people who live there."

People living near the house are receiving counselling and support at the local Surestart Community Centre.

Peter Tobin, 61, who has been charged in Scotland with the murder of Vicky, was committed for trial on Friday.

Vicky was last seen alive in Bathgate, West Lothian, in 1991, while Dinah McNicol failed to return to her home from a trip to Hampshire, in the same year.