Nearly 20 years after Emma Caldwell’s brutal murder, sex workers still face horrific levels of violence that they are unwilling to report to the police, outreach groups have told the Guardian.
The trial of Iain Packer, who was jailed for 36 years on Wednesday for Caldwell’s murder in 2005 and a catalogue of sexual violence against 22 other vulnerable women, exposed chronic police failings in their dismissive attitude towards women selling sex as well as normalised violence from the men paying them.
