I tried to pick up Emma, accused told detectives

Jurors taken on visit to remote woods where victim's body found

- SARAH WARD

THE Emma Caldwell murder suspect admitted trying to pick up the sex worker.

Jurors at the High Court in Glasgow heard Iain Packer, 51, was quizzed by police weeks after her body was found and claimed he had never picked her up in the past.

Packer, then 32, gave statements to police in June and July 2005.

The former sign fitter said he had "seen" Emma three or four times in the red-light area of the city known as "the drag".

There had been an occasion he had gone to speak to her but by the time he did, she had gone. He stated: "That was the only time I was going to pick her up."

Packer claimed not to have known her name at the time.