Iain Packer is arrested as a suspect in the case of Emma Caldwell’s murder took place in 2005.
Emma Caldwell got into drug addiction after the loss of her big sister to cancer. She then forced herself onto the red-light streets of Glasgow where she was a hustler.
Iain Packer used to be her regular client and said to be obsessed with Emma. He repeatedly drove her to the remote forestry track where her body was found.
Who Is Iain Packer From Glasgow? Emma Caldwell Murder Suspect
Iain Packer from Glasgow is the man who was repeatedly questioned during the investigation of Emma Caldwell’s murder case. He had been never taken as the suspect earlier.
His girlfriend reported that he attacked her physically after the broadcast of the BBC Disclosure programme, he was then arrested and charged over the assault in November 2018.
He accepted then that he pushed a woman to bed, putting his hands around her throat, and choked her to death. He was sentenced to a total of two years and imposed a five-year non-harassment order banning him from contacting his victim.
BBC investigation revealed that at least four prostitutes told police they were also taken by Iain to the same remote woodland, near Roberton in South Lanarkshire, in the months before Emma was killed.
Iain Packer Suspect Arrested After Emma Caldwell Death Body Found
Emma Caldwell went missing on 4th April 2005. She was a 27 years young woman back then who was a prostitute of Glasgow’s red-light district. Five weeks later, her body was found.
Her body was found naked, and she was strangled in isolated woods near Roberton, almost forty miles from Glasgow. Iain Packer refused to accept that he was the one who did wrong to her.
He was featured in a BBC Disclosure programme, where he denied the charges, just after hours of broadcast, his ex-girlfriend told police he has physically attacked her too.
Know Iain Packer Age & Jail Sentence Details
Iain Packer is believed to the forty-eight or forty-nine years of age. He has been arrested in connection to Emma Caldwell’s murder that happeded back in April of 2005.
During the investigation, the officers questioned Packer also as he was a regular client of Caldwell. He gave six statements to the police between 2005 and 2007 but was never came on the radar of the suspect.
In 2018, journalist Sam Poling interviewed him for a BBC Disclosure documentary on the case. He denied killing and being violent to anyone. However, he had a chain of history of domestic violence. His sentence is yet to be revealed