DEMANDS for a public inquiry over the Emma Caldwell murder investigation are mounting amid accusations of a “concerted cover-up.”

The 27-year-old’s body was found strangled in woods near Roberton in South Lanarkshire in 2005, but murderer Iain Packer evaded justice for more than 18 years.

Sentencing him for his “extraordinary campaign of sexual violence,” judge Lord Beckett ordered that Packer serve no less than a total of 36 years in prison this week, not only for murder but for 11 rapes against nine women and 21 further charges, including sexual assaults and abduction, over the last 26 years.