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Defence lawyers told jurors that there is not “one piece” of evidence linking Emma Caldwell and Iain Packer on the night she went missing in her murder trial.
Packer, 51, is on trial at the High Court in Glasgow, accused of murdering Miss Caldwell, 27, who vanished in Glasgow on April 4, 2005. Her body was found in Limefield Woods, near Roberton, South Lanarkshire, the following month.
He faces a total of 36 charges involving offences against 25 women, all of which he denies. Defending, Ronnie Renucci KC told jurors on Wednesday that Packer is “prepared to accept responsibility for his actions” and is “not trying to hide the fact” he went to Limefield Woods with sex workers.
Mr Renucci asked jurors: “If Iain Packer was responsible for her death, was he really going to be so stupid as to dump her body there and leave it to be found?”
He said there was no phone communication between Packer and Miss Caldwell on April 4, 2005. He pointed to a phone call that named person Abubekir Oncu made to Miss Caldwell at around 11.20pm that day.
Mr Renucci said: “Whatever way you want to dress it, there is no evidence of any communication between Iain Packer and Emma Caldwell that night.”
He said there is “not one piece of evidence” showing Packer was in the area of Glasgow’s red light district known as the drag the night Miss Caldwell was last seen.
Mr Renucci said: “If there is one person who was not a stranger to the red light district, that was Iain Packer.
“There is nothing to place Iain Packer at the scene. No DNA, no bodily fluids, nothing.
“There is no other evidence to suggest Iain Packer was anywhere near the city centre that night.”
Mr Renucci appeared to suggest that had Packer been in the red light district on the evening of April
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