Mother of 2010 rape victim backs calls for a judicial inquiry - and calls for top cops to be out in the spotlight
The mum of a sex worker raped by Iain Packer five years after he murdered Emma Caldwell has blasted cops for leaving him free to attack women.
"But he should have never even been on the streets in 2010 – he should have been arrested years before and umpteen women would have been spared their lives being wrecked. She was one of 22 women to feature in the major High Court case – where the killer was given a life jail sentence, with a minimum term of 36 years.
The mum, who fought back tears after Packer was given a 36-year sentence at the High Court in Glasgow on Wednesday, said all working girls knew Packer was almost certainly the killer. "He had a thing about choking and strangling and humiliating women. My daughter said he had spat on her face, which still makes me feel sick." She said her daughter had battled addiction for many years.
"She was furious at the time but all the fight was knocked out of her and she didn’t formally report it for years, as far as I’m aware." The mum backed calls for the Scottish Government to call an independent judicial inquiry into the bungling of the case over the years.
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