UK - Emma Caldwell, 27, found murdered in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, May 2005 *Arrest*

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In an interview weeks after the body of Emma Caldwell was found, Iain Packer said there was one occasion when he had intended to pick her up but she had gone by the time he returned.

He later told police: 'I have seen Emma Caldwell three or four times in all. I didn't know her name at the time, I only learnt it from TV.'
www.dailymail.co.uk

Man accused of murdering sex worker told cops he tried to pick her up

In an interview weeks after the body of Emma Caldwell was found, Iain Packer said there was one occasion when he had intended to pick her up but she had gone by the time he returned
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Iain Packer, 51, is accused of murdering Emma Caldwell, 27, who went missing in Glasgow on April 4, 2005, and whose body was found in Limefield Woods, near Roberton, South Lanarkshire, a month later.
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He denies 36 charges, involving offences against multiple women, including the murder of Caldwell.

In his second day giving evidence at his trial at the High Court in Glasgow, Packer was asked about an indecent assault on Caldwell in August 2004, where she was paid £30 for Packer to perform a sex act on her behind a billboard in the Barras.
www.thetimes.co.uk

Emma Caldwell murder trial: accused ‘ashamed’ of sex assault

Iain Packer admits ‘guilt’ over attack on sex worker eight months before her death
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www.bbc.co.uk

Murder accused admits indecently assaulting Emma Caldwell

Iain Packer tells a court he indecently assaulted the 27-year-old but denies her murder eight months later.
www.bbc.co.uk

The KC said 11 women had claimed that Mr Packer had put his hands around their throat and asked him: "Are these women all liars?".
He replied: "Yes".
Asked about accounts of him seizing women's wrists or pulling their hair, he denied he liked causing young women pain during sexual encounters.
He dismissed as "rubbish" a statement from a friend of Emma Caldwell who had said he was obsessed with her.
 
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Jury told Emma Caldwell accused committed 'appalling' crimes

The prosecutor says Iain Packer showed a pattern of violent behaviour which culminated in the murder of Emma Caldwell.
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In his closing speech, prosecutor Richard Goddard KC said Iain Packer's violence had "escalated horribly" with the killing the 27-year-old in 2005.
Iain Packer, 51, has admitted he once indecently assaulted Ms Caldwell but has said he did not murder her. (…)
Mr Goddard told the jury that Mr Packer's mode of attack on women had become "horribly familiar" during the case.
"We have evidence from 25 women from all different backgrounds and walks of life, speaking to crimes of assault, indecent assault and rape, all committed by the same man over a period of 26 years," he said.
"That man is Iain Packer and that man told you that all of them are liars.(…)
Mr Goddard described Mr Packer as "an incorrigible user of sex workers" and said his violence towards women was characterised by seizing them by the throat and choking them.
 
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BBC Emma Caldwell

In a police statement Mr Packer said he went with her behind billboards having agreed payment for a sex act but continued after she became upset and tried to break away from him.

During cross examination at the trial at the High Court in Glasgow, he said he was ashamed of his actions and agreed that they were "criminal".
www.bbc.com

Jurors in Emma Caldwell murder trial consider verdicts

Iain Packer denies killing the 27-year-old as well as more than 30 other charges against women.
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Emma Caldwell

Judge Lord Beckett has instructed jurors they should find Packer guilty of a charge of indecently assaulting Miss Caldwell after he admitted the offence while giving evidence.
www.glasgowlive.co.uk

Jury in Emma Caldwell murder trial deliberates for third day

Iain Packer, 51, is on trial accused of murdering Emma Caldwell, 27, who vanished in Glasgow on April 4, 2005 and whose body was found in Limefield Woods the following month.
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Glad to see both verdict and sentence, given his age, that'll be the rest of his life I'd think.


Packer jailed for at least 36 years​

Packer is jailed for life and ordered to spend a minimum of 36 years in prison before he can apply for parole.
The sentence is backdated to 28 February 2022.
 
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Hopefully there will be enquiry into this case. No heads will roll as the senior officers will all be retired, but Packer would've been caught sooner if Police Scotland had taken their blinkers off.
It almost makes me wonder if he had pals in the force.
Jmo, moo
 
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Finally he’s behind bars.

Well done to Emma’s mother and father(RIP) for never giving up on justice
 
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Emma Caldwell murder: Family's anger at police as killer Iain Packer is jailed. From David Cowan’s analysis:

Legal sources with knowledge of the case support the view of former detectives who believe there was enough evidence for Packer to have been charged by 2007, two years after the murder.
Instead, inexplicably, the full headlights of the original inquiry were never turned in his direction, even when charges against four Turkish men collapsed.
That must rank as one of the most serious failures in the history of Scottish policing.
 
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Bluebear15 said:
Hopefully there will be enquiry into this case. No heads will roll as the senior officers will all be retired, but Packer would've been caught sooner if Police Scotland had taken their blinkers off.
It almost makes me wonder if he had pals in the force.
Jmo, moo
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I’m 100% with you on the point about wondering if he had people within the force.

On the news this eve, The BBC were interviewing detectives who say Police Scotland even in the original investigation told them not to concentrate on Packer and just look at the Turkish men - Emma Caldwell murder: Family's anger at police as killer Iain Packer is jailed

The poor mother has been through an awful lot - losing her eldest daughter to cancer, then her youngest child who was badly affected by her sisters death was murdered, then years of no justice, during this time her husband died (on his death bed she says he made her promise to never give up the fight for justice) - Margaret you did it! You never gave up and today you finally got justice.

I hope Police Scotland have to pay her a large compensation package for what they put her through over the last 19 years.
 
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