A teenager who was rapidly raped by serial killer Peter Tobin four years before the murder of Vicky Hamilton claimed that he could have been stopped if the police had correctly investigated her brutal attack.
The woman has emerged to reveal that, despite a detailed photo bit, detectives have made little attempt to track down the man responsible for the attack that her permanent scars.
Only when Donna, whose last name we protect, saw the image of Tobin during the hunt for Polish student Angelika Kluk that she recognized him as her rapist.
She told how she was pushed violently from behind in July 1987 and was forced to a wall when she climbed a stairwell of a high -rise in Johnstone, Renfrewshire. She only survived when Tobin was interrupted after she heard a door open.
The now 52-year-old has decided to speak publicly about her moving test for the first time after a new BBC documentary, the hunt for Peter Tobin.
She insists that it is wrong to 'glorify' the police and 'the true story does not tell' about how officers 'missed an opportunity' to catch him for four years before killing West Lothian Schoolgirl Vicky Hamilton in 1991.
Serial killer and sex offender Peter Tobin received lifelong penalties for the murders of Angelika Kluk, 23, Vicky Hamilton, 15, and Dinah Mcnicol, 18
Tobin's Victims (LR) Angelika Kluk, Vicky Hamilton and Dinah Mcnicol
Donna said she was attacked in 1987 by Tobin in Johnstone, Renfrewshire, Renfrewshire
The test has left its' survivor's guilt ', so much so that she feels the need to personally' apologize 'the Hamilton family on behalf of the police for their shortcomings that could have prevented Vicky's death'.
Donna, who was brutally attacked the day before her 16th birthday and reported what happened the next day with the then Strathclyde police.
But despite the provision of officers of a detailed photo of Tinbin, who lived in the area at the time and an officer who took pictures of her injuries, including a broken base, broken eye cap, a knife wound on her leg and a bite bark on her back, there was no follow -up examination.
She said: “They just said it was a random attack and that I was in the wrong place at the wrong time. I felt like it was my fault.
“They asked” how short was your skirt? “And” Where was the bottom button on your blouse? “
“I don't feel that they have taken it seriously and I would like Vicky's family to know that their sister should not have died if the police had done their work in the 1980s. I keep them responsible. '
Serial killer Tinbin, who threatened Donna, would be 'back' because he was 'not ready' with her, lifelong punishments for the murders of the 15-year-old from Bathgate, Dinah Mcnicol, 18, Van Essex, and Polish student Angelika Kluk, 23,.
He was only imprisoned after the murder of Angelika in 2006 when her body was found from under the floor plates of a church in Glasgow and he was connected to Vicky and then Dinah's disappearances in 1991.
Donna contacted the Scotland police at the end of last year to see a record of her crime, she received a response, seen by the mail, which stated: 'I can confirm that our searches, based on the information provided, have not returned information. Due to the passage of time, the Scotland police have no information from the eighties. '
As a last resort 'she has an e-mail from the police of the Scotland police, the police chief commissioner Jo Farrell last summer, but, after no response, she wrote to her a handwritten letter in November, after which she was invited to submit a formal complaint.
She added: 'This program should not promote the police about what a good work they did because they didn't.
'These girls would still live today if the police had carried out a thorough investigation in the 1980s after I was attacked by him. I blame myself for the death of these girls, I keep thinking that I have not done enough, have I not described it well enough? But they had a photo fit from him. They knew he came from the area and they didn't link it. '
The revival of the brutal attack she told how she heard footsteps when she climbed the stairwell but didn't think anything about it. But then she was pushed from behind with 'great power' and her face touched the wall in the front.
At that time she was wearing a light scarf and a pink raincoat and said, “He tried to choke on with the scarf.”
She continued: 'Then I saw the knife. He followed the tip of the knife around my calf as if he pulled on a little paper. Then he raped me. '
Even now Donna, who suffers from complex PTSD, still has to take sedativa to get her through the night.
She said: 'Every time I close my eyes, I see his face. I can still smell him. For me it is as if it happened yesterday. It has formed who I became – I can't work, I can't get out. He is bad and I feel sorry for another woman who has been too scared to come forward whether she has emerged and has not been listened to. '
Donna has now called in the help of the Scottish conservative MSP Pam Gosal while continuing her search for justice for her and other victims.
She said: 'It's not just the psychological scars, it's the physical scars; Every time I look at my foot and look the bone, I know how I got it and who did it. Death seems to be the easy way out for him, but I was left with the scars he gave. It is a constant memory. '
Tobin died in Edinburgh Royal Infirmary in 2002.
A spokesperson for the Scotland police last night would only say: “We received a complaint, it would be inappropriate to comment on at the moment.”
A BBC spokesperson said: 'BBC documentary The Hunt for Peter Tinbin emphasizes the three cases of missing people from Vicky Hamilton, Dinah Mcnicol and Angelika Kluk who would eventually expose a serial killer. The series also investigates the first marriage of Tobin and his report of abuse against women. '
