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Caldwell murder accused wore women’s underwear, court told

Source: PA Wire

A sex worker identified a murder accused as a punter and said he wore black, silky women’s underwear and “treated women rough”, a court has heard.

Iain Packer, 50, is on trial at the High Court in Glasgow accused of murdering sex worker Emma Caldwell, 27, in 2005, and faces 46 charges in total including of sex crimes as well as abduction and assault.

He denies all the charges against him, and has lodged special defences of incrimination, consent, defence

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