POLICE last night began digging at the church where a body - thought to be missing Polish student Angelika Kluk - was found beneath floorboards.

Their fingertip search of the chapel and its grounds intensified as it emerged prime suspect Peter Tobin was already on the Sex Offenders' Register when Angelika disappeared.

Tobin, who was working as a handyman at St Patrick's chapel, Glasgow, was interviewed by police hunting Angelika but was freed after giving a false name and address.

Last night Stewart Callaghan, who lived near Tobin in Paisley, demanded to know how the fiend had remained at large after his concern prompted a police raid on his home last October.

Stewart revealed Tobin at first came across as a "pleasant and helpful" neighbour but locals became increasingly worried when he began to bring a string of teenage girls into his home in the town's Brown Street.

"Before he disappeared, I allowed Alyssa to go down into his house on her own to pick up a DVD that he had borrowed. He gave her a small car as a present.

Stewart said: "The police came regularly after the first raid and were always asking us about him. But after the raid, we never saw hide nor hair of him again.

It's chilling to think ofwhat he is." Another neighbour said: "I asked Tobin where the girl staying there had come from he said he had found her sleeping rough.

Glasgow-born Tobin has a criminal record dating back to 1965. He was convicted of raping one 14-year-old girl and sexually assaulting another in Havant, Hampshire, in 1994 and was sentenced concurrently to 33 years in jail.He moved to Paisley in December 2004.

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