Emma Caldwell’s killer convicted nearly two decades after first police interview
by Sarah Ward
Feb 28, 2024
3 minutes
Nearly two decades after the body of Emma Caldwell was found in an isolated woodland, a man who was interviewed in the initial investigation has been convicted of her murder and of being a serial rapist.
The unsolved murder was one of Scotland’s longest cold cases, and was branded a “scandal” by an ex-newspaper editor who exposed Iain Packer as the “forgotten suspect”, after which police and prosecutors reopened the inquiry.
The jury took four days to find Packer guilty of murdering the 27-year-old, who went missing in on April 4 2005
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