Margaret Caldwell, Jim Coyle and Stewart McGrory will meet with the First Minister at Bute House in Edinburgh on Tuesday.
The family of Emma Caldwell are set to meet with John Swinney tomorrow amid an ongoing row over who should lead the public inquiry into the police investigation of her murder.
A statement on behalf of Emma's family, issued by solicitor Aamer Anwar, reads: "After a tireless campaign for an independent Public Inquiry investigating the death of Emma Caldwell, an Inquiry was announced by the Scottish Government. Emma’s family and their lawyer, Aamer Anwar, demanded the independent judge led Public Inquiry be presided over by a judge outside of the Scottish Jurisdiction. However, since then, there has been no progress in the appointment of a non-Scottish judge.
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Four Turkish men were wrongly charged with her murder in 2007 before the case against them was dropped in 2008. Seven years later, detectives were ordered to reinvestigate Emma's murder after former detective Gerry Gallacher took his bombshell investigation on Packer police bungling to the Record's sister paper the Sunday Mail, which then named Packer as a forgotten suspect.
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