Ex-Sunday Mail editor says Emma Caldwell failed by justice system after Iain Packer jailed
dailyrecord.co.ukThe former editor of our sister title the Sunday Mail - which investigated Iain Packer on the 10th anniversary of Emma Caldwell’s murder, after which the police inquiry was reopened - has said she was “failed” by the justice system.
Jim Wilson was editor of the Sunday Mail when it branded Packer “the forgotten suspect” in 2015, and he claimed the authorities “concealed” Packer and left him “free to commit more crimes”.
Seven weeks after the newspaper’s investigation, then lord advocate Frank Mulholland ordered the case to be reopened.Mr Wilson also accused Police Scotland of an “unlawful” probe into the newspaper’s sources in the aftermath of the story, rather than focusing on the killer.
The Investigatory Powers Tribunal ruled in 2022 that Police Scotland breached Mr Wilson’s rights when it sought to identify The Sunday Mail’s sources for the story.Six years earlier, it found the force had acted “unlawfully” when looking at the cases of individuals whose data was accessed as the force tried to determine how information about the murder investigation reached the press.
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