Alesha MacPhail murder: Teenager finally admits to raping and killing 6-year-old, sentenced to life
Sixteen-year-old Aaron Campbell finally admitted to abducting, raping, and murdering 6-year-old Alesha MacPhail after having flatly denied his crime for the last eight months, reports said..
Little Alesha's body was recovered from the woods on the Isle of Bute on July 2, last year, a couple of hours after she was reported missing from her house her father shared with his parents and partner on the island.
Campbell was arrested for the crime, but maintained his innocence blaming Alesha's father's girlfriend for the death. At the sentencing on Thursday, Campbell was jailed for life with a minimum term of of 27 years.
The judge Lord Matthews sentenced him to "detention without limit of time" and also slammed his "arrogance, staggering lack of remorse, and the tissue of lies he gave."