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Serial rapist who murdered woman found naked in woodland nearly 19 years ago jailed

Source: PA Media

A violent man who murdered a 27-year-old woman and dumped her body in a remote area of Scottish woodland has been jailed for life, nearly two decades after committing the horrific crime.

Iain Packer was accused of strangling Emma Caldwell and concealing her body in South Lanarkshire in April 2005, as well as raping or sexually assaulting 21 other women.

Packer has now been locked behind bars for a minimum term of 36 years after being convicted of , all of which he denied at the

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