Overview

• Margaret Caldwell, 77, will meet Solicitor General Ruth Charteris next Wednesday to press for the inquiry to begin.
• The inquiry was promised after Iain Packer was convicted and jailed for life in February 2024, yet it has still not started 19 months later.
• She accuses prosecutors of blocking the process, and her lawyer Aamer Anwar urges Charteris to step aside and for Lord Scott’s inquiry to start immediately.
• The Crown Office says ministers, the chair and the family are working on terms of reference and that it will engage constructively at pace.
• Police Scotland’s deputy chief constable Alan Speirs says the force agrees the inquiry should progress without further undue delay, while reports say no external investigators have been appointed for a parallel probe into officers.