The search for further remains is continuing at the house in Margate

Officers were conducting house-to-house inquiries as part of investigations into another missing person, Dinah McNicol, from Essex.

The body of Vicky Hamilton, 15, who went missing in Scotland 16 years ago, was found at the address in Margate.

Peter Tobin, 61, and from Scotland, was charged with her murder at Linlithgow Sheriff Court on Thursday.

Mr Tobin once lived in the Margate house where human remains and personal items later identified as Vicky's were discovered on Monday.

A search there led by Essex Police had originally focused on Ms McNicol, who was 18 when she failed to return home from a trip to Hampshire in 1991.

Dinah McNicol disappeared on her way home to Essex in 1991

The force's Det Supt Tim Wills said he expected garden excavations to continue over the weekend, with a detailed and forensic search of the entire property set to last into next week.

"As of now nothing extra of significance has been found," he said on Thursday.

"At the moment police search officers are working with archaeologists, removing in sections all the topsoil down to the subsoil.

"That makes it a lot easier for the archaeologists to indicate where they might be interested in what's gone on underneath."

Det Supt Wills added there was still a chance more remains could be found, and that he believed Dinah McNicol was "linked to this house in some way".

"I'm hopeful we can bring some answers to Dinah's family, and I think she might be here," he said.