BBC journalists who helped convict killer win Bafta award

The journalists who helped convict slayer Iain Packer person said “new allegations were being investigated” aft winning a Bafta for their documentary connected the execution of Emma Caldwell.

Packer, 51, believed to beryllium Scotland’s worst enactment offender, was sentenced to beingness with a minimum word of 36 years successful February aft being recovered blameworthy of murdering Ms Caldwell, 27, successful 2005 arsenic good arsenic 11 rapes and 21 different charges, including intersexual assaults, against different women.

The rapist, who preyed connected enactment workers, was convicted astatine the High Court successful Glasgow aft BBC writer Samantha Poling confronted him astir the execution successful a tv documentary, which forced a reinvestigation.

Ms Poling and shaper Eamonn O’Connor won a Bafta Scotland grant for quality and existent affairs for Catching A Killer: The Murder Of Emma Caldwell (Disclosure) astatine a ceremonial successful Glasgow.

During an acceptance speech, Ms Poling dedicated the grant to Ms Caldwell and different survivors of Packer.

She thanked the BBC lawyer who worked connected the investigation, and said: “Accusing idiosyncratic of execution is not easy.”

She praised the dedication of the producer, saying: “Eammon O’Connor has worked connected this for 10 years and has ne'er fixed up.”

Speaking aft she received the award, Ms Poling said: “This is their award, not ours. If it hadn’t been for the bravery of those women, who had not been believed for years – without their testimony, determination would person been nary conviction.”

She said that different women had travel guardant to the BBC squad regarding allegations of maltreatment by Packer, and from different men.

Ms Poling said: “It has fixed women assurance to travel forward.

“I person been contacted by immoderate women since the investigation, immoderate of the women assertion to beryllium victims of Iain Packer, which is being investigated by police.

“Some of them were reported 30 years ago. They are coming to us, not the police.”

Mr O’Connor added: “Police chose to fto this antheral spell escaped to harm different women. No constabulary serviceman has ever been disciplined oregon sanctioned successful immoderate mode for each the things they got wrong.”