Serial rapist Iain Packer has been found guilty of the 2005 murder of sex worker Emma Caldwell following a High Court trial in Glasgow.

Packer, 51, was found guilty of indecently assaulting and murdering the 27-year-old Caldwell, who went missing in Glasgow in April 2005 before her body was found just north of the Scottish border a month later.

He was also convicted of raping 11 women among dozens of other charges at the conclusion of the six-week trial in Glasgow’s High Court.

Caldwell had disappeared only days after telling her mother Margaret she was hoping to kick her addiction to heroin, which had started after a family bereavement a few years prior.

Caldwell's mother Margaret was pictured outside the High Court with family and solicitors yesterday

She was reported missing after she didn’t reply when her family tried to contact her about changing the time of a planned meeting.

Caldwell was found with a “garotte” around her neck in some woodland by a dog walker on May 8^th, 2005.

A 2021 soil sample from the site Caldwell’s body was found was a “97 per cent match” with soil found in Packer’s work van, the court heard.