Iain Packer has pleaded not guilty to a total of 46 charges, including 11 rapes, over a 26-year period.
The man accused of murdering Emma Caldwell is facing charges against a further 27 women, court papers reveal.
Iain Packer, 50, has been charged with her murder and 45 other offences, including 11 rapes, over a 26-year period. His lawyer lodged a not guilty plea on his behalf at the High Court in Edinburgh.
Ms Caldwell, a 27-year-old sex worker in Glasgow, disappeared in April 2005.
Her body was found five weeks later in a remote part of South Lanarkshire.
A preliminary hearing before Lord Beckett was allowed to proceed in Mr Packer’s absence on Tuesday due to a delay transporting the accused to court.
A trial date was set for January 2024, with proceedings expected to last 11 weeks.
The 46 charges on the indictment are alleged to have taken place between 1990 to 2016.
Mr Packer is accused of “indecent and libidinous practices” towards a girl aged between 14 and 15 from July 1990 to October 1991.
He is alleged to have raped and murdered Ms Caldwell on 5 April 2005.
He is also accused of a series of sexual offences which are alleged to have taken place until 2016.
Mr Packer is also accused of assaulting three men between February 2008 and October 2011, as well as punching a 15-year-old boy in the head between June 1992 and June 1993.
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