Alesha MacPhail trial

[AgentProvocateur]

I presume we can talk about this now that the jury has reached a verdict?

This is such an upsetting story. I’ve been to Bute many times when my children were younger, so it’s hit home.

It just all seems so sordid. The girlfriend is so young, the dad and the girlfriend selling drugs to the guilty boy and his 14-year-old sibling, the alleged domestic violence from Alesha’s dad to his girlfriend...

My heart goes out to Alesha’s mum.

It is absolutely devastating
I dont think we will even know why this happened to the poor wee alesha

Absolutely heartbreaking for her family

I find it so odd he broke in and just carried her out. He chose her. A 16 year old lad.

My own boy is 16 so I'm struggling to comprehend this

I feel for her poor mum too, didnt she find out her daughter was missing on Facebook?

There are a few unconnected dots certainly and I wouldn't be surprised if this goes to appeal.

Did the girlfriend admit to having a sexual relationship with the accused?

I have a 16 year old and it seems surreal that someone of his age could do such a violent and hideous crime.

Her mum looks broken going by photos I have seen. She waved her wee girl off to her dad's. Then she looks at Facebook to see her daughter is missing! No one took a moment to tell her that she was missing.

That 16 yo is a seriously sick young man, with a seriously sick imagination. Wonder why his mum had cctv?

I hopeAaron Campbell rots
in jail, evil Bastard.

This case is sad beyond belief.
It's inconceivable to think of the horror for the little girl and now the devastation that her mum has to live with.
I just can't get my head around the fact that a drunk, 16 year old could break into a house (albeit with the key in the door) and steal a little girl without one of the 4 adults in the house hearing something.
When my 19 year old comes in drink she's like an elephant.
It says he was trying to get cannabis and then went to the house.
It just seems so strange.
Poor baby.

I don’t doubt for a second this evil bastard did it but what I don’t get is how he managed to get into the house, find her and get her out without anyone else being disturbed.

I would love the death penalty back for things like this.

Hirples

The cctv was set up for a family member with dementia living there apparently.

It's beyond words.

I'm also baffled by how he gained access and managed to take her. THey had a top floor flat?

The door was unlocked I believe. Not uncommon in the islands. The mum is not far from me in Airdrie. My heart breaks for her.

I saw a video of him today and he just looks like a teenager. He's just a boy. How do you make a decision to do such a thing and so many lives, including your own, are ruined. Shocking.

She looked such a lovely cheery wee girl, I am so sad for her mum most of all. I

don't know what sort of family he came from, but his family's life will never be the same again either. Imagine being his mum. I can't even imagine.

It seems completely senseless doesn't it. Can't even imagine what the family are going through 😢 but i also can't get my head around what drives people to do the things they do. There has to be something missing to commit an act so awful an carry on about your business like nothing's happened. So sad.

Thanks, AuchAye, I wondered if the boy had previous for slipping in and out at night.

Awful horrible person. The worst bit is he will no doubt be out to live his life before he's all that old. Good on that judge naming him. He should be locked up for life- All his life not some shitty 10 years or whatever.

I can't see the point in naming him. I didn't care what his name was.
He might be an evil rapist but chances are he is mentally ill or has had a damaged childhood. Even if he was born evil how does knowing his name help. He'll be locked up and if he gets out name will be changed I expect.

I think the reason to show the boys name and face is so that he can never get away from what he did, imagine Aleisha’s mother not being able to tell people his name to protect him, that would kill her, if I was the mother, or any of the family then I would want to shout my daughters killers name from the rooftop so I totally understand why the judge lifted the ban, serves the evil little bastard right.

I think psychopaths are born bad, it’s not always about abuse, it can and does happen as we see here, by all accounts he was always going to have committed something like this, his own mother phoned the police because she had seen on cctv that he had been out in the night and she said to him ‘maybe you could help the police because you maybe saw something’, the boy was adamant that he didn’t and still his mother called the police, that’s because deep down the mother must’ve known something wasn’t right with her son.

I can’t believe people can’t see the reason for the public finding out his name and picture, or saying that they don’t feel better for knowing it, you may not feel better but I’m damn sure it’s a tiny bit of justice for the family.

Also @Bagpuss saying that he could me mentally ill is an insult to mentally ill people, you can be just bad and mentally ill and bad or mentally ill and good, and tough shit if he’s had a damaged childhood, that’s an excuse imo.

His dad had told people in the past that his son had no empathy for others, that’s because he was a psychopath.

The parents should have done more, like got him to see a psychiatrist or something, how can you know your son isn’t right but yet sit back and do nothing? They obviously did nothing and buried their head and thought that he’d be okay, the father is apparently annoyed at the mother for phoning the police on their son wtf does that say about the father? Would he have covered up if he knew?! The best thing that family can do is move house, I couldn’t stay in an area where my spawn did that, and I knew that he was off, I just couldn’t, I would feel too guilty.

What I should have said about the mentally ill is that even if he was ill, then it wasn’t mental illness that did this, it was pure evil.

I hate this evil POS and I hope his personal officer in jail is a parent and ‘just happens’ to leave Campbell’s door open one day, and that they let the other inmates know this and a few of them go in quietly and give this thing proper justice, this boy loves computer gaming and he’ll get a computer inside so where’s the punishment?

Imagine being a prison officer and getting told that your the one to look after him, etc, I think I’d kick up a hell of a stink there.