A senior officer has confirmed that during the Emma Caldwell murder investigation, almost 300 rapes and sexual assaults reported by sex workers had not been dealt with by the police. Police Scotland’s deputy chief constable has stated that an operation was launched to investigate sex offences reported around 2005. She added that some of the offences are now being dealt with by the courts. A former detective responsible for the murder inquiry has said that he had received several reports of rape during that time. However, he stated that they were boxed, marked as irrelevant, and not followed up on.
Emma Caldwell’s body was found five weeks after she was last seen in Glasgow city centre. Her murder investigation by the then Strathclyde Police was one of their most expensive ones. The police interviewed many of the estimated 800 women working in the city’s red-light district when Emma Caldwell was working there as a sex worker to fund her heroin addiction.
Former Detective Sergeant Will
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