Packer's Delay: 20 Years of Freedom

0:00That's the story for today, you're at news today, driven by AI, I'm Cory with the story. Emma Caldwell, a 27-year-old woman, was murdered back in 2005, but her killer, Ian Packer, a repeat sex offender, wasn't. Convicted until this year, 2024, after nearly two decades, early on during Operation Grill, the police probe into her death most detectives zeroed in on Packer right away, with some saying they were one. 100% sure he did it, yet higher up shut that down, and chase Turkish suspects instead, whose case fell apart by 2007. Now, former detectives Davey Barr and Stewart Hall are opening up on the Beware Book Podcast, which digs into eight unsolved or linked deaths of women. In prostitution around Glasgow from the 90s to the early 2000s, and they both stood firm. Packer even admitted to Barr he'd taken Emma to. The woods were her body turned up. That delay meant Packer stayed free, assaulting more women in the years after,

1:00and the ex-cops point fingers at bosses who got orders from above to drop him, leaving the team fuming but powerless back then. A public inquiry led by Lord Scott kicks off soon to unpack the botched probe, while police Scotland vows full support for Emma's family, promising. The truth they fought so hard for all these years.