16-year-old charged with rape and murder of 6-year-old Alesha Macphail to go on trial next year
The 16-year-old boy denies abducting six-year-old Alesha Macphail from her bed at knife-point before raping and murdering her on the Isle of Bute.
The teenager who has been charged with the rape and murder of six-year-old Alesha MacPhail is due to go on trial next year.
The boy, 16, has denied abducting, raping and then murdering the child on the Scottish island of Bute. According to reports, the six-year-old was reported missing in the early hours of July 2 when she was at the start of a three-week break visiting family on the island in the Firth of Clyde, west of Glasgow. Authorities discovered her body a couple of hours after she went missing, Daily Mail reports.
