Alesha MacPhail’s mum describes six-year-old’s killer as ‘inhuman’

The mother of Alesha MacPhail, the six-year-old girl who was murdered on the Isle of Bute last summer, has described her daughter’s killer as “inhuman”.

Aaron Campbell is beginning a life sentence with a minimum of 27 years after he snatched Alesha from her bed before raping her and dumping her body.

The 16-year-old was described as “callous and calculating” by Lord Matthews during the sentencing – and the judge said the teenager had not shown a flicker of emotion during the nine-day trial.

Speaking to the Daily Record, Alesha’s mother Georgina Lochrane said: “A life sentence should be a life sentence. He should have no human rights and doesn’t deserve anything because he is inhuman.

“I will do whatever I can to make the parole board see that that can’t be released back into society.”

Ms Lochrane, 24, said “even the devil itself would be disgusted in what that thing has done” – and she described Campbell as “the worst of the worst”.

She told the newspaper: “He doesn’t deserve to breathe the same air as my family. It rubs salt into our wounds the fact he is still alive and she isn’t.

“What I look forward to now is the day I wake up and it’s all over the news that he’s dead and I hope he suffers more than Alesha did.”

Ms Lochrane said she was worried about what Campbell was capable of upon his release from prison, and claimed: “As soon as he walks out the gates, he will strike again and I don’t want another child to suffer.”

At the sentencing, Ms Lochrane called Campbell a “disgusting, vile little f****** rat”.

She told the newspaper that would have tried to “jump over the seats” to get to him had her other daughter Courtney not been with her.

Alesha’s mother also said the fact that “his own mum shopped him” makes her happy.

Elsewhere in the interview, Ms Lochrane called for killers to be given tougher sentences.

She described Thursday’s sentencing as the worst day she had experienced in court, adding: “When I walked in, I was a shaking mess. The worst I have been.

“The pain I felt that morning I lost her came back. It was like that day all over again.

“But I feel like Alesha is with me all the time. Today more than ever.”

Scotland’s top law officer said the sentencing is a matter for the judge but the length of sentence reflects the “exceptional and truly dreadful nature of the crime”.

Lord Advocate James Wolffe QC added: “I’m immensely proud of the work that was done by prosecutors in dealing with the case against Aaron Campbell.

“The outcome reflects hard work by the police and prosecutors.”

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