A victim of brain butcher Sam Eljamel has demanded the surgeon is prosecuted or his victims will die without seeing justice done. Pat Kelly, 64, longs for the neurosurgeon to be jailed for what he has done.
28.02.2024 - 18:31 / dailyrecord.co.uk
The former editor of our sister title the Sunday Mail - which investigated Iain Packer on the 10th anniversary of Emma Caldwell’s murder, after which the police inquiry was reopened - has said she was “failed” by the justice system.
Jim Wilson was editor of the Sunday Mail when it branded Packer “the forgotten suspect” in 2015, and he claimed the authorities “concealed” Packer and left him “free to commit more crimes”. Seven weeks after the newspaper’s investigation, then lord advocate Frank Mulholland ordered the case to be reopened.
Mr Wilson also accused Police Scotland of an “unlawful” probe into the newspaper’s sources in the aftermath of the story, rather than focusing on the killer. The Investigatory Powers Tribunal ruled in 2022 that Police Scotland breached Mr Wilson’s rights when it sought to identify The Sunday Mail’s sources for the story.
Six years earlier, it found the force had acted “unlawfully” when looking at the cases of individuals whose data was accessed as the force tried to determine how information about the murder investigation reached the press. Mr Wilson said the case was characterised by “official concealment, delay and denial” which allowed Packer to “terrorise” other women.
Speaking after Packer was found guilty of murdering Miss Caldwell and a host of other charges, Mr Wilson said: “Iain Packer will finally pay for his crimes but police and prosecutors who allowed him to remain free for almost 20 years must also be held to account. Police Scotland and the Crown Office did nothing because it was professionally embarrassing to admit mistakes and put them right.”
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A victim of brain butcher Sam Eljamel has demanded the surgeon is prosecuted or his victims will die without seeing justice done. Pat Kelly, 64, longs for the neurosurgeon to be jailed for what he has done.
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