‘We’re all really freaked out’

THE former next-door neighbour of Peter Tobin described him yesterday as “creepy”.

Laura Harris, aged 26, grew up near to the three-bedroom council house in Margate, Kent, where the 61-year-old lived.

Ms Harris said she was “freaked out” by recent developments.

“My mum and dad have lived here for 25 years, but I moved out six years ago.

“We’re all just really freaked out by it. This sort of thing happens to other people.

“It’s awful what has happened and we’ve lived next door to it for all those years.

“I remember Tobin. I used to think he was creepy. He wouldn’t have been living in the house any longer than two years.

“He lived there alone, but his son used to visit at weekends. The scary part of it is he offered to babysit me and my sister when we were younger. My mum wasn’t having any of it because we didn’t know him.”