Alesha killer to appeal

THE teenager jailed for a minimum of 27 years for the rape and murder of schoolgirl Alesha MacPhail has been granted leave to appeal against the sentence.

Aaron Campbell, 17, snatched the six-year-old from her bed at her grandparents’ home on the Isle of Bute last summer.

He was handed a life sentence with a minimum of 27 years following a nine-day trial at the High Court in Glasgow earlier this year.