A person has been charged in reference to the demise of Emma Caldwell.
We instructed how Iain Packer, 49, was arrested in Glasgow on Thursday following the 27-year-old's demise in 2005.
On Friday police confirmed that 'the 49-year-old man who arrested within the Glasgow space on Thursday, February 24 has now been charged'.
Intercourse employee Emma, from Erskine in Renfrewshire, was reported lacking in April 2005.
A month later her bare physique was present in woodland close to Biggar, South Lanarkshire.
Following consideration by senior attorneys within the Crown Workplace and tireless campaigning by her mom, Margaret Caldwell, the unsolved case was reopened in 2015.
Current developments adopted what officers described as "important enquiries" carried out by detectives from Police Scotland's Main Investigation Workforce, the Scottish Police Authority and the Crown Workplace and Procurator Fiscal Service.
Emma's bereft mom spoke at a press convention with solicitor Aamer Anwar in Glasgow on Thursday afternoon.
Margaret stated the household are grateful to those that have labored tirelessly on the investigation because it was reopened in 2015.
Police Scotland launched a press release confirming the cost on Friday afternoon.
The person stays in custody and is scheduled to look at Glasgow Sheriff Court docket on Monday.
The assertion learn: "Police Scotland can verify that the 49-year-old man who was arrested within the Glasgow space on Thursday, February 24, 2022, has now been charged in reference to the demise of Emma Caldwell.
"The person stays in custody and is because of seem at Glasgow Sheriff Court docket on Monday, February 28, 2022."
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