MURDER SUSPECT WHITE AS A SHEET' AFTER TV GRILLING

Woman tells court alleged killer claimed: They are blaming me

- GRANT MCCABE

THE Emma Caldwell murder suspect was as "white as a sheet" after being interviewed by a TV journalist about her death.

Iain Packer was later said to have commented to a woman he knew: "They are blaming me for Emma.

The woman yesterday told jurors: "My gut instinct was this was not going away. It was written all over his face."

The witness - who alleges she was previously attacked by Packer - said he claimed separately he was looking after a child when Emma vanished, or may have been working in Aberdeen.

Packer, 51, denies a total of 46 charges involving multiple women, including the murder of 27-year-old Emma at Limefield Woods in Biggar, Lanarkshire, on April 5, 2005.

The witness, now 49, had previously lived with Packer having initially got to know him in 2012.

She was yesterday asked about interviews Packer had done with journalist Samantha Poling for a BBC documentary in 2019 concerning Emma.

The woman said she had gone with him but was not allowed to t join him while he was quizzed.