EMMA Caldwell’s mum said she has a “renewed hope for justice” for her murdered daughter after a meeting with the new Lord Advocate.
Margaret Caldwell has been relentlessly campaigning for 16 years to find out the truth behind her daughter's death.
Earlier today she had a meeting with Dorothy Bain QC, who recently took over as Lord Advocate from James Wolffe, with her solicitor Aamer Anwar at the Procurator Fiscal’s office in Glasgow.
Emma was 27 years old when her body was found in woods near Biggar, in South Lanarkshire, in May 2005.
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She had been a sex worker at the time, and the last recorded sighting of Emma was on Butterbiggins Road in the southside of Glasgow at around 11pm on April 4, 2005.
The unsolved case was reopened in 2015 following consideration by senior lawyers in the Crown Office and tireless campaigning by her mother.
Following the meeting, Margaret Caldwell told reporters: “I’m very happy about how things went today.”
Anwar said Caldwell now had a “renewed hope for justice” for her daughter after the meeting with the Lord Advocate.
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Anwar said: “When Emma was brutally murdered 16 years ago her family, in the midst of their grief, were forced to campaign for justice.
“Emma’s father, William, before he died in 2011, made his family promise they would never give up fighting for justice.
“Since then Margaret has been made many promises by former lords advocate and police officers but as the years passed by, hope faded.
“There should never be a time limit on justice and Margaret feels she was betrayed by the original Strathclyde Police investigation, but has confidence a new Police Scotland investigation left no stone unturned.”
Anwar said that the meeting with Bain, who secured the first murder conviction against serial killer Peter Tobin, went well and there was “a very detailed discussion”.
Anwar added: “Margaret welcomed the meeting with the new Lord Advocate Dorothy Bain today.
“Dorothy was, as Margaret says, the first Lord Advocate to say it’s not right that it’s taken so long, and that she accepted mistakes had been made.
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“But the Lord Advocate also renewed Margaret’s hope for justice.
“A very detailed discussion took place of the Crown Office and police strategy, but nothing can be said which will prejudice the ongoing inquiry and its integrity.
“Margaret’s hope had faded and she has a renewed hope that justice will be done.”
Four Turkish men were previously arrested and charged with Emma's murder in 2007, but the case collapsed and they were all released.
A BBC investigation discovered that at least four sex workers told police they were also taken by a client to the same remote woodland, near Roberton in South Lanarkshire, in the months before Emma was killed.
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