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This case shows the depth of police corruption .....



Iain Packer has been jailed for a minimum of 36 years for the murder of Emma Caldwell in 2005.

Police missed the chance to catch Emma Caldwell's killer in the months after her murder because senior officers repeatedly dismissed him as a suspect.

Four former detectives who were involved in the earliest stages of the inquiry say evidence of Iain Packer’s violent, abusive and predatory behaviour was known to police from the start of their investigation.

But they say senior officers told them not to pursue Packer and instead wrongly built a case against four Turkish men - who were then cleared.

The case was one of Scotland's most high-profile unsolved murders until a BBC Scotland investigation paved the way for Packer's arrest.

Following on from the police apology, Scotland’s Crown Office and Prosecution Service (COPFS) says it carried out a full independent investigation of “all allegations of potential criminality involving police officers” in the original Emma Caldwell murder inquiry.

Prosecutors also considered how detectives came to charge four Turkish men with her murder in 2007.

A COPFS statement said: “Following careful consideration of the facts and circumstances, Crown Counsel concluded that there was insufficient evidence of criminality on the part of any police officer involved in that investigation.

“As in all cases, the Crown reserves the right to proceed in the future should further evidence become available.”