Magdalene Robertson believes Emma Caldwell killer Iain Packer had more victims and even struck while on holiday abroad
A woman raped by Iain Packer at the age of 15 believes his reign of terror extended to holiday hotspots abroad including the USA and Spain.
Magdalene Robertson has even contacted the FBI in America with her concerns.
Packer is serving life for the murder of Emma Caldwell and the rape and sexual assault of 22 other women, including Magdalene.
She says he visited Florida several times over the years including trips with his family on Boxing Day.
Magdalene gave the FBI a statement after contacting them in 2024 about Packer’s vacations in the Sunshine State.
She said:”You don’t be a serial rapist and sexual offender and say, I’m on holiday from that. Your habits go with you.
“For anything, you feel a bit more relaxed about your vices, don’t you?
“There is the fact of going to Florida and being around all these children and young people. that’s so scary in itself.
“There’s also the adult places that he would go to. We also know from the court case he used to join the sex clubs and he used to take it too far with the people who were already open-minded.
“We know that he’s committed so many rapes he’s been convicted of.
“There’s all the other potential victims that we haven’t heard about, it’s reasonable cause to believe that he would have attacked people in the States in Florida.”
Magdalene was indecently assaulted by Packer at 14 and raped by him when 15 in 1990 at a property in the Garrowhill area of Glasgow.
She gave up her right to anonymity two years ago when giving evidence to a Scottish Parliament Justice Committee about her experience of making a complaint against the police.
It has previously been reported that Packer visited Florida during the winter months including trips to theme parks like Walt Disney World.
Magdalene added:” The person I spoke to in the FBI was really polite and I told them the situation. We went over it from the beginning right to the end.
“He took down details of the police. He took the details of the court case.
“The court case was going on at the time and he took information down.”
Magdalene also claims she was told by police that they had carried out inquiries in Spain.
She said:”I don’t know why and I don’t know who it was, but they had a reason to go to Spain to question people.”
Magdalene says Police Scotland should be sharing what they know about Packer with the US authorities.
She added:”There an alliance between the UK and America?
“Do Scotland not owe a duty of care to the States?”
Magdalene also plans to hire a private investigator to probe Packer’s trips to Florida when she learns more about the places he visited.
She added: “That’s really what I want to do. I just need to find out that little bit of information.
“So if anybody’s got information to tell me exactly where he used to go in Florida.”
Magdalene believes that Packer, who was a sign erector, would be identified quite easily by other victims.
She added:” He didn’t wash, he wasn’t very clean.
“He stunk of cigarettes.
” He was small, he looked like a Neanderthal. And he’s very, very stocky.
“So he’s got an extremely wide neck and he’s very strong. I think he’s very distinctive, plus his accent would have stood out as well.
“We have lots of photos that could be shared and I don’t know why the police have just not handed that over to the states. “
Magdalene, now a successful renewable energy consultant, believes there are other victims closer to home.
She added: “He’s travelling everywhere, he’s going to different places, he’s in a white van.
“He’s working in a community. He has contracts.
“He had access. He worked in schools with children with disabilities and adults with learning difficulties.
“He had absolute access to different people.”
Magdalene, who is now in her early 50’s, believes she wasn’t Packer’s first victim and that there were others even younger than her.
She also believes that Packer’s victims could number in the hundreds.
Magdalene added:” He is psychopathic. You have to understand that. There’s no human side to him.
“I don’t believe that I was the first one. Not at all.
“Because the first time when he went to try and attack me he knew what he was doing.
“I swear to it, he’d been offending well before he even attacked me.
“There’s all the other people in my network that he approached when we were younger. There was a lot of them.
“There was basically every female, any young female. that wasn’t fully protected or didn’t have their parents with them or didn’t have somebody with them. I wasn’t the first.
“There’s many people that didn’t come forward
“How many hundreds would it be?”
Packer’s victim Emma Caldwell was one of seven women involved in prostitution who were murdered between 1991 and 2005 while working in Glasgow.
Her body was found in Limefield Woods near Biggar in Lanarkshire in May 2005 after she had been reported missing
Magdalene was speaking out in the latest episode of the Clyde1 podcast Beware Book, about the seven murders.
The title refers to a diary at a drop in centre where women like Emma logged dangerous clients’ names.
Packer was overlooked as a prime suspect in the original 2005 investigation even though he admitted taking Emma and other women to Limefield Woods for sex.
Instead senior officers focussed their attention on four Turks who were charged with Emma’s murder in 2007 but had the charges dropped the following year.
Packer then went on to carry out attacks on other women.
He was named as the “the forgotten suspect” in our sister paper, the Sunday Mail, in 2015 and a fresh probe began, leading to his 2022 arrest.
A public inquiry into the original investigation by Strathclyde Police has begun and is due to hear evidence later this year.
One of the cops involved in the original Emma Caldwell investigation in 2005 and who helped identify Iain Packer as a prime suspect also believes there are more victims, at home and abroad.
Former Detective Constable Stuart Hall said:”When people go on holiday, they go on holiday to relax, to let their hair down
“So I don’t see him going to stop any pattern of behaviour. That’s who he is.
“His campaign of violence towards women, goes way beyond my involvement.
“Prior to that, when he was a younger man, he was violent towards women. So that just seems to be who he is, how he deals with life and women.
“So, absolutely. There’ll be more in this country and I think wherever he’s holidayed. “
Stuart was one of a number of detectives who investigated Packer but were told by their bosses that he was not a suspect and would never be an accused in the case.
Instead they learned that the focus of the murder investigation was on the four Turkish suspects who were later cleared of any involvement in Emma’s death.
Deputy Chief Constable Alan Speirs said: “Emma Caldwell’s family have shown incredible courage and determination following her murder in 2005 and we are absolutely committed to supporting the Inquiry and getting her loved ones the answers they deserve.”
* The latest episode of Beware Book is available on the Rayo app, Apple, Amazon Music and Spotify.
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