Police have found a second body at the house where Peter Tobin used to live.

The body of 15-year-old Vicky Hamilton was found at the house in Margate, Kent on Monday.

But police had continued their search for Dinah McNicol, another missing teenager .

Detective Superintendent Tim Wills from Essex Police said the girl's family have been told and post mortem examination will now be carried out on the remains to see if they are Dinah's.

Yesterday, Peter Tobin, a 61-year-old Scot appeared in court charged with Vicky's murder.

The anguish of almost 17 agonising years was etched on the face of her father yesterday as he tried to breach a police cordon to reach a Reliance van carrying Tobin.

The furrowed brow, screwed up eyes and clenched teeth gave some indication of the anger, frustration and pain he has felt while waiting for news of his daughter Vicky who was last seen alive on Sunday, February 10, 1991 in Bathgate, West Lothian.

The gamut of emotions were exposed yesterday as a clench-fisted Mr Hamilton had to be restrained by police as Tobin left in a Reliance van following a private appearance at Linlithgow Sheriff Court where he was charged with the 15-year-old's murder.

Mr Hamilton's brother, Peter, lunged forward and shouted at the suspect before hitting the back of the van as it left the court.

Members of the public also hurled abuse as Tobin was driven away.

A short time earlier traffic was stopped as Vicky's father, accompanied by a police officer, had been allowed to walk solemnly ahead of the Reliance van carrying Tobin as it drove into the car park at the rear of the court.

He broke down as the former odd-job man was led back into the vehicle following his hearing.

Tobin made no plea or declaration and was remanded in custody. He is expected to appear in court again next week.

Family excluded from the private hearing gathered outside the court to watch the suspect arrive and leave.

A crowd of around 50 members of the public gathered at the scene, many of them swearing at the suspect as he was driven away from the building.

Vicky's uncles, Eric and Peter, hit the back and the side of the Reliance van angrily with their hands as it drove off.

Speaking outside court before the hearing, Eric Hamilton said of his brother Michael: "He is happy that the long road is nearly at an end now.

"All we are wanting to do is to have peace, and to get on with putting Vicky where she belongs."

Less than 24 hours earlier police confirmed that Vicky's remains had been found buried in the garden of a house in Margate, Kent, bringing the search for her to an end.

Tobin was charged by Lothian and Borders Police in July in connection with the teenager's disappearance following the search of a house in Bathgate. The previous November police confirmed they were no longer treating her disappearance as a missing persons case and declared a murder inquiry had been launched dashing all hope her father held of finding her alive.

Vicky was two months short of her 16th birthday when she was last seen eating a bag of chips at a bus stop in Bathgate while waiting for a bus to take her to her home in Redding, near Falkirk.

She had left another bus after visiting her elder sister, Sharon, in Livingston.

Police had suspected Dinah's remains might be at the house.

Detective Superintendent Tim Wills, of Essex Police, told a press conference in Margate on Wednesday: "I do not intend to leave the house until I'm fully satisfied that there are not any other human remains at that site."

Mr Wills said that once the ground-level search has been completed, a "deep search" will begin, which could take a number of days.

Dinah's father, Ian McNicol, 68, of Tillingham, Essex, said he thought his daughter could still be at the house in Margate.

He said: "I know the police have said it's not Dinah's remains they found, but I still think she could be there.

"They are going to continue to rip up the garden.

"It won't be the end of the search." Mr McNicol and Mr Hamilton have more in common than missing daughters.

They have both lost their wives as well as their daughters.

Vicky's mother, Janette, died two years after she disappeared never to learn her daughter's fate.

Mrs McNichol died before her daughter vanished.

Vicky's disappearance sparked one of the biggest-ever missing persons investigations carried out in Scotland.

Detectives interviewed more than 7000 people, taking 4000 statements and seizing about 12,000 documents.