A person accused of murdering a Glasgow intercourse employee has apologised in courtroom for a sexual assault on her the 12 months earlier than she died.
Iain Packer admitted he attacked Emma Caldwell throughout his second day of proof on the High Court in Glasgow on Wednesday, and agreed with a prosecutor that what he did was “criminal”.
Packer, 51, faces a complete of 36 fees involving offences towards a number of girls.
Ms Caldwell, 27, went lacking in Glasgow in April 2005 and her physique was present in Limefield Woods, close to Roberton, lower than an hour’s drive from town, a month later.
Prosecutor Richard Goddard KC requested Packer if he accepted he was responsible of indecently assaulting Ms Caldwell the 12 months earlier than after paying her £30 to carry out a intercourse act on him behind a billboard within the Barras space.
He informed police on the time “I continued to hold onto her waist. I was saying, ‘we have agreed before we started, I have paid for this’. She managed to pull away and was upset.”
It was, he mentioned, “something that I’m not very happy about, I’m ashamed of. I apologise for that, it’s not something I’m proud of”.
A good friend of Ms Caldwell mentioned in a witness assertion learn in courtroom: “I thought he was stalking her or obsessed with her because he would not leave her alone, it got to the point he would drive up behind other punters and basically scare them off.”
Packer denied that Ms Caldwell was somebody he notably seemed out for.
Mr Goddard requested Packer what number of girls alleged they have been strangled by him.
The prosecutor mentioned: “Could it be 11? Are they all lying?”
Packer mentioned: “It can’t be a coincidence if it never happened.”
In 1999, a intercourse employee reported Packer to police alleging she was raped – and handed over identification paperwork taken from his work van.
Mr Goddard mentioned: “Might it be that she took these documents to have paperwork to report a serious rape committed by you?”
Packer mentioned: “I’ve no idea.”
He claimed to have taken six completely different girls to Limefield Woods on six events, however solely named Emma Caldwell.
A intercourse employee who Packer admitted taking there, mentioned she “thought he was going to batter f*** out of me. I was petrified out in the middle of nowhere nearly stripped with that nutter”.
In Packer’s model, he informed the younger girl: “This is the second time you’ve f****** done this to me, just take your clothes off and get it f****** over and done with.”
Another alleged sufferer mentioned Packer selected women who have been “young, vulnerable and on drugs”, after an encounter in a sauna in 2005, the courtroom heard.
The trial continues in entrance of Judge Lord Beckett.
Source: information.sky.com”