Partygoers at Glasgow swinger club ‘had no idea’ serial rapist turned killer Iain Packer was lurking in their midst

Scotland’s most dangerous sexual predator Iain Packer attacked women at sleazy swingers’ parties for years after he murdered tragic Emma Caldwell.

Serial rapist Packer, 52, who was finally jailed for 36 years last year for attacks on 22 women, was charged with brutalising at least three women he targeted at sex parties.

Insiders claim CJ’s swingers’ ­parties took place up to three times a week behind the blackened walls of what looks like a disused Victorian warehouse at 124 Craighall Road, on Spiers Wharf in Glasgow.

And we can reveal that Packer, who was obsessed with throttling women, loved masquerading as “security” at adult ­parties where he would tell punters his name was “John”.

The parties were run by Caroline Bulmer, 63, who has previously run similar events at a property in Nithsdale Road, and at a farm on the outskirts of north Glasgow.

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One insider said: “Caroline has been extremely cute about avoiding needing a licence by insisting punters bring their own booze or charging for services such as a so-called buffet.

“Those parties were jam-packed at times. I’m quite sure those who attended had absolutely no idea they were sharing intimate activities with the Devil in disguise.

“He looked like a big heavy and he liked to act in a threatening manner, but the people attending those adult parties probably had no idea just how dangerous Packer was.”

Three women gave evidence to the court about a series of violent incidents involving Packer at a number of sex ­parties at Craighall Road.

Court documents show Packer continued preying on female partygoers even after he was publicly unmasked in 2015 as the main suspect in Emma’s murder.

The 27-year-old Erskine woman had tragically turned to sex work to pay for the drug habit she developed while ­seeking solace over the cancer death of her beloved elder sister.

Emma’s family had no idea of the horror their daughter was exposed to as she carefully hid the truth while battling to overcome her addiction.

Her body was discovered by a dog walker in dense, isolated forest at Limefield Woods near Biggar, Lanarkshire, weeks after Emma disappeared in April 2005. A series of blunders by police left Packer free to continue preying on others for 17 years, until the monster was finally unmasked as the “forgotten suspect” who led officers to the isolated drop site where he left Emma’s body after choking her to death.

Detectives in charge of the case were more interested in wrongly pursuing Turkish businessmen who ran a cafe in Glasgow city centre, despite Packer admitting to officers that he had taken Emma to Limefield Woods six times.

After Packer was unmasked in 2015, the Lord Advocate ordered a reinvestigation of the case.

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When Packer was finally arrested and stood trial last year it was revealed that the brute was obsessed with Emma, who was terrified of him. Packer was eventually found guilty of murdering Emma and 32 other charges involving 22 women.

He was sentenced to a minimum of 36 years.

Bulmer, who advertises some of the services she continues to run under the name of “Kinky’s Closet”, which offers transvestite makeovers, admitted she was still active in the business. She said she had an event booked last Friday night for what she claimed was “40 or 50 people” at a charge of “£20 per couple”.

Asked about Packer, she said: “Yes, the papers said he was the main suspect, but the police did not say that, and the police did not arrest him until February 2022.

“You say I allowed him in to prey on females. This is so untrue. As soon as I was made aware of an allegation in 2016 he was barred, and I never spoke to him again.”

She added: “I would never allow anyone into my place if I thought there was any risk to other guests.”

Gerry Gallacher, the retired police officer who solved Emma’s murder after he became angered over the Police Scotland response to her killing, said: “People attended those sex parties for years not knowing they were in the same room as Scotland’s most dangerous predator.

“I’m quite sure they will be horrified when they read this and learn the truth.

“Packer must have been like a kid in a sweetie shop picking off willing victims at those parties. He probably couldn’t believe his luck.”