We are beyond bad luck and coincidences.You strangled her..left her and took her possessions

Suspect says he can't explain soil evidence as he’s ‘not a scientist’

- GRANT MCCABE

THE suspect accused of murdering Emma Caldwell told jurors yesterday he is an "innocent man" and insisted: "I am sitting here for something I have not done."

Iain Packer was in the witness box for a third day of questioning at his trial at the High Court in Glasgow.

The 51-year-old faces 36 charges of physical and sexual violence involving 25 women, including the murder of Emma, 27, at Limefield Woods in Biggar, Lanarkshire, on April 5, 2005.

Packer earlier said in evidence he had been the victim of "lies" made against him by all the females.

But prosecutor Richard Goddard KC suggested it was Packer who had "changed his story" seven times.