Alesha MacPhail's killer to appeal sentence today
17.year old Aaron Campbell, who was 16 at the time, was sentenced to life with a minimum of 27 years in prison after being found guilty at the High Court in Glasgow.
The teenager who abducted, raped and murdered six year old Alesha MacPhail on the Isle of Bute will appeal his sentence today at the Appeals Court in Edinburgh.
17.year old Aaron Campbell, who was 16 at the time, was sentenced to life with a minimum of 27 years in prison after being found guilty at the High Court in Glasgow.
Throughout the trial Campbell denied everything but after being convicted, he admitted to a psychologist; "At any other time in life, murder wouldn't have been the conclusion. If I was a year younger I don't think I would have done it.
"All I thought about was killing her once I saw her."
It was also disclosed he told the psychologist he was "quite satisfied with the murder".
When sentencing the teenager, the trial judge, Lord Matthews, described him as a "cold, callous, calculating, remorseless and dangerous individual".
The body of six year old Alesha was found in woods on the Isle of Bute on July 2nd last year, hours after she was reported missing from the house her father shared with his parents on the island.
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