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It's 221pm on Thursday the 2019 that brings you the biggest stories coming out of Hollywood and Westminster.

It's 2.21pm on Thursday the 29th of February, leap year.

I'm David Wallace Locker, a political correspondent based in Hollywood.

And joining me today is... Georgia Roberts, Westminster correspondent based in Westminster.

David Henderson, political correspondent, also based in Holyrood.

We are not long out of First Minister's questions here at Hollywood, of course, it being Thursday.

And one issue did really seem to dominate, and that was the end to, I suppose, one of Scotland's most high-profile unsolved murders.

The murder of Emma Codwell, Ian Packer, this week jailed for at least 36 years, found guilty as well of a number

of other crimes against women. And this seemed to enter the political sphere very much this afternoon,

didn't it? Yeah, it did. It was the main topic of conversation at First Minister's questions.

Rightly so, because Emma Caldwell and at least 20 other women in Scotland were badly

let down by the criminal justice system, by the police. It's a terrible story. You know,

it's a reminder that justice delayed is justice denied. It's also a reminder that if you don't catch the right

person at the right time, then they will stay out in the streets and they'll commit far more

crimes. And we should perhaps now say, David, actually, because I should have said this, we don't

have the time to go into the ins and outs of this case. But if you do want to know all about it,

the BBC, BBC Scotland has put up a new documentary

catching a killer, the murder of Emma Caldwell, done by some of our colleagues who were pivotal

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