The mother of Scottish murder victim Emma Caldwell has warned an inquiry into the police investigation will be a multi-million-pound whitewash without urgent action. Margaret Caldwell fears the planned public inquiry into one of Scotland’s biggest justice scandals will be worthless if restricted to the initial probe into her daughter’s death in 2005.

The inquiry’s terms of reference announcement last week suggests it will only examine the actions of Strathclyde Police, which merged into Police Scotland in 2013 – 11 years before Iain Packer, a prime suspect wrongly freed by detectives, was finally convicted of Emma’s murder.

It would mean there would be no scrutiny into the crucial period of time during which senior officers mounted an illegal mole hunt on Sunday Mail sources after

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