Summing up the case for the defence in the trial of Iain Packer, who has been jailed for at least 36 years for the murder of a sex worker, Emma Caldwell, and a catalogue of sexual violence against similarly vulnerable women, Ronnie Renucci KC posed a question to jurors last week.
“If he is this person [who murdered Caldwell], how on earth did he get away with it for all these years right under the noses of the police?”
