Scotland force under spotlight over handling of long-running case, and its attitude to violence against sex workers

A man has been found guilty of the 2005 murder of Emma Caldwell after a trial that raised significant questions about Police Scotland’s investigation of the unsolved murder and the key suspect over almost 20 years and its attitude to reports of violence against sex workers.

Iain Packer, 51, was found guilty of murder and a string of sexual offences against multiple women that amounted to a horrifying course of unchecked physical and sexual violence over two decades.

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