Aaron Campbell

[LordPickle]

I am glad that this monster has been named publicly. The idea that he would have been protected after murdering Alesha MacPhail made me sick. His picture is all over the news now.

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I'm referring to comments you and others have made. Compulsive liar is not a description. Tells lots of lies is descriptive.

Anyway, whatever he is he's exactly where he should be now and I hope he's there for a very long time

Nope I still haven't made any comment diagnosing with anything. But yes I agree with you I hope he's locked away for a very long time.

At least we agree on something

Doesn't deserve to see the light of day again. Unfortunately, he will.

Indeed!

It will be interesting to see what his sentence and the minimum he has to serve. It goes without saying he is a very dangerous young man.

And he won't be kept in solitary or in a high security establishment throughout his sentence just based on his offence. The whole point of the system is to rehabilitate and reduce risk in time for release. He will be decategorised throughout his sentence.

With respect, it’s rather rich for you to criticise the amateur diagnoses of others then come out with this.

For a start, there are several psychiatric conditions which are regarded as incurable or highly untreatable so rehabilitation is likely or practical. And it’s not a given he would be moved to lower security accommodation either. He will be continually assessed for risk, but that doesn’t mean it will always be downgraded.

I know for a fact he won't be kept in solitary confinement throughout his sentence. There isn't a single prisoner who has had that treatment and as vile as his crime was there are many others who have repeatedly committed these types of crimes.

He is extremely unlikely to continue to pose the type of risk to see out his sentence in category A conditions. For that he would have to pose an extremely high risk to staff and other prisoners. Also, he will definitely be recategorised in the next few years simply based on his age. He will have to be recategorised to be transferred to the adult estate when he reaches 21

I also pointed out that he won't stay in those conditions "just based on his offence".

That's in reply to pps who stated that he would

I keep wondering how he knew which bedroom to go into. How did he know where she slept?

I keep wondering how he knew which bedroom to go into. How did he know where she slept?

That crossed my mind. Obviously without a sound too.

It could have been that the little girls bedroom was the room closest to the front door in the flat and if he bought his drugs from there then he would have known the layout.

I don't know how they all slept thru tho, my DD (5) comes into my bed in the middle of the night and before she's made it out her door I'm awake.

I agree, nasty piece of work, evil really. I only cares about himself and has shown no remorse to what he did to that poor little girl.

No he needs to be incarcerated for the whole of his natural life, yes he is a POS.

I've followed the case carefully and while I accept that the general public only get a potted version of the evidence I cannot for the life of me see how the boy got into a flat and took a little girl who made no noise at all, where the four other adults didn't stir and where no trace whatsoever of the boy's DNA was found. Similarly, I can't understand how no DNA of the little girl was anywhere in his house, including the bathroom where he had a shower. It seems very odd to me. No explanation seems to have been given for either, just a leap to the conclusion that he chanced upon the correct room and threatened the little girl with a knife. All I know is that my own six year old girls would have screamed for sure. And no suggestion of motive either. It's a weird case, evidentially.

However repulsive a crime, the scum and rot in hell comments are also disgusting.

I guess it could be that cannabis isn't the only drug on the island and that there's some much harder stuff kicking around.

I agree @goodbyestranger I don't fully understand how it could have happened in the way we have been told given the lack of DNA but appreciate we're not in full possession of the facts. It's just too horrific to comprehend - I still can't quite believe it's true.

*I know for a fact he won't be kept in solitary confinement throughout his sentence. There isn't a single prisoner who has had that treatment and as vile as his crime was there are many others who have repeatedly committed these types of crimes.

He is extremely unlikely to continue to pose the type of risk to see out his sentence in category A conditions. For that he would have to pose an extremely high risk to staff and other prisoners. Also, he will definitely be recategorised in the next few years simply based on his age. He will have to be recategorised to be transferred to the adult estate when he reaches 21*

@shpoot

I don’t think anyone has said this in the way you’ve put it though? From what I’ve read people think he’ll be kept away from other prisoners for his own safety?

What if he asks for protection throughout his sentence, will he get this?

He doesn't deserve to be anonymous, what he did to that poor 6-year-old girl was demonic.
Maybe he has been through something for him to have done that, even if he is a victim he is a murdering torturous rapist first. He went into her home and took her, he didn't happen to come across her it was planned. He acted like an adult by doing those things, children do not rape or murder ordinarily those actions are carried out by adults. He knew at that age it was wrong.
His parents didn't do anything, that we know of, to have made him this way. Yes they deserve to live in peace, but like other parents of adult murderers do, they will once it does down. If they move away they will likely blend in. They could change their names if they felt it necessary.
I already knew who he was as I saw it on Twitter, this would never have been kept under wraps even if the media didn't print it, his new was all over the web. So were his pictures and videos the locals spread it.

"However repulsive a crime, the scum and rot in hell comments are also disgusting"

Why are they? How is he not scum and why does he not deserve to rot in hell?

Fabby He will get protection if he asks for it. All prisoners are monitored etc. But he won't get protection in the form of solitary confinement. That facility is just not there for the long term.

Honestly though, if there is much interest from the prisoners (other than bullying him for his canteen), it will soon die down. Life in prison is much different.

He will just be a nobody. They will not be after his blood for long. It's an ever changing population and attention moves from person to person very quickly.

Why are they? How is he not scum and why does he not deserve to rot in hell?

THIS ^^

He IS scum and I do believe he should rot in hell after what he did to that poor little girl.

@shpoot

Are you a prison officer or ex offender?

Let's just say I've got a lot of experience in it

Ah ok!

goodbyestranger it crossed my mind that a little girl in an unfamiliar house with an unlocked door who was half asleep could have wandered out into the street. His palm print was on the wall outside the home but obviously it couldn’t be dated. That could explain the lack of evidence inside the house.

The lack of DNA from Alesha in his house, it all happened along a shore line, his clothes were discarded along the shore. It was July. It’s perfectly possible he washed himself in the sea.

Mr Graham also pointed to the defence used by Campbell, who tried to blame Toni McLachlan, the girlfriend of Alesha’s father, for the crime while maintaining his own anonymity

Surely those were the reasons put forward by the QC (Tony Graham) acting for the press agencies, for naming him, not the reasons supplied by the judge for actually doing so?