Rapist has sentence reduced.

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There really are no words.

Alesha MacPhail 's teenage killer has had his minimum sentence slashed by three years after raping and murdering the six-year-old on the Isle of Bute last summer.

Aaron Campbell , 17, claimed his 27-year sentence was "excessive" in an appeal against the jail term heard at the Court of Criminal Appeal in Edinburgh last month.

Three of the country’s top judges have now decided that the minimum term he will serve before being considered for parole will be reduced from 27 years to 24.

www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/alesha-macphail-killer-aaron-campbell-19927539

Sickening

Did these top judges also taking in to account his lies and trying to frame someone else?

I think his minimum sentence should be forever.

Inappropriate, insensitive and insulting to the family. Why on earth did it ever get to court?! I don't understand why life doesn't mean life...

Unbelievable.

I suspected this would happen because of his ago. I personally think his crime was too horrific for him to ever be released.

No AtSea1979 I'm sure the highly experienced professionals totally ignored that information.

I don't agree with this reduction, however my personal opinion doesn't matter. There are good reasons why the public don't get to decide criminal's sentences.

Realistically, 24 years with no guarantee of release is still one hell of a sentence. By the time he's eligible for parole he'll be 41 and will have spent over half his life in prison. Even if he is released then, he'll have a pretty shit life - no qualifications, no work experience, known bastard etc. All of which he utterly deserves (and then some IMO).

If they'd decided he could be released next year, you might have a point. But everyone's idea of a just sentence will be highly subjective - some will say anything less than life is too lenient, others that he ought to be given the death penalty, for example. This is why we have the judiciary.

The judges are likely to have weighed his sentencing with other similar convictions and considered the individual circumstances carefully. It won't have been a "sure, knock 3 years off, why not" decision.

Oh my fucking god!