BREAKING BAD BRIT’S ASHES RETURN HOME Breaking Bad Brit found dead in desert
Murder cops still hunting for killer
Alesha was ‘the brightest thing’ THE dad and uncle of tragic six-year-old Alesha Macphail help carry her pink coffin after a moving tribute at her funeral.
Alesha had been starting the summer break with a visit to her grandparents on a Scottish isle when she was found dead in woodland three weeks ago.
A piper played as mourners arrived for her funeral, and railings were covered with bows – while cuddly toys including teddies and unicorns lined the wall outside.
Uncle Calum Macphail told mourners in Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire: “Alesha had a great amount of love. I can’t believe she is gone. She was the brightest thing.”
Alesha’s mum, Georgina Lochrane, 23, said: “Every single day will be harder than the day before to walk this earth without you by my side. Goodnight my sweetie.” Andy’s killing could have come straight from the TV drama that obsessed him scatter Andy’s ashes as soon as possible. “I’m glad we’re getting him back. We’ll give him a good send-off.”
Dad-of-one Andy moved to Albuquerque in December 2015 after becoming obsessed with Breaking Bad starring Bryan Cranston as a dying chemistry teacher who becomes a drugs baron with the aid of a former pupil. Sheffield ex-uk Border Force worker Andy emigrated after meeting online and marrying a woman from the US city.
But the relationship quickly soured, and by June the next year Andy was sleeping on pals’ sofas. He then spotted an ad for a handyman, with accommodation included, at the farmhouse where police believe he died. Andy is thought to have suffered two blows to the head last August, before his body was dumped in the desert where Cranston’s character Walter White lived a secret life cooking up crystal meth in a motorhome.
It was found by a hiker a month later.
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It is understood Andy was planning his own drugs operation weeks before his death, hosting dinner parties serving legal marijuana pizzas in Colorado.
US officials have now sent his remains on to a relative in Florida.
His brother said it was most likely the Sheffield Wednesday fan’s ashes would be scattered outside the club’s Hillsborough stadium. Robin added: “Andy’s death has devastated the family and we’re hoping we can get justice now.
“It would provide closure for everyone that his killer hasn’t got away with it.”
patrick.hill@sundaymirror.co.uk