Emma Caldwell murder: 'It makes me feel sick, knowing that I had been there'
A woman who lived at the same hostel as Emma Caldwell has said she will never get over knowing that the man who murdered Emma took her to the same location just months before the killing.
Caitlin [not her real name] is a former sex worker who testified at the trial. "It makes me feel sick, knowing that I had been there," she said.
The body of the 27-year-old sex worker was found in Limefield Woods, Biggar, in April 2005.
Iain Packer has been jailed for at least 36 years for the murder of Emma Caldwell in remote woods almost 19 years ago.
The 27-year-old's death in April 2005 had been one of Scotland's most high-profile unsolved murders.
The sex worker's body was found in Limefield Woods, South Lanarkshire, in May 2005 - five weeks after she was last seen in Glasgow city centre.
Packer, 51, was found guilty of her murder as well as 32 other charges.
The offences included 11 rapes and multiple sexual assaults against a total of 22 women, including Emma.
Packer was found guilty of attempting to defeat the ends of justice by dumping Emma's body in the woods and disposing of her belongings, and of indecently assaulting her.
He was cleared of a further three charges - one indecent assault and two sexual assaults - against a further three women, after the jury returned not proven verdicts.
The sentence is the second longest ever handed down by a Scottish court, behind the 37 year minimum jail term given to World's End killer Angus Sinclair in 2014.
