Boy Found Guilty In The Rape And Murder Of 6-Year-Old Alesha MacPhail

Boy Found Guilty In The Rape And Murder Of 6-Year-Old Alesha MacPhail

A 16-year-old boy has been found guilty for raping and murdering  6-year-old Alesha MacPhail.

Alesha was reported missing from the home her father shared with his
parents last July. Hours later, her body was found with 117 injuries in
woods on the Isle of Bute. 

The 16-year-old boy, who cannot be named due to his age, had denied
rape, murder and abduction at Glasgow High Court. He blamed the crime on
Toni McLachlan, 18, the girlfriend of Alesha’s father Robert MacPhail,
26.

But the jury took just three hours to find the teenager unanimously guilty today.

Judge Lord Matthews told the boy he had committed some of the ‘wickedest, most evil crimes this court has ever heard’.

As the 16-year-old killer was led to the cells after being found guilty this afternoon, the father of Alesha MacPhail shouted ‘f***ing scumbag’ at him.

As the 16-year-old killer was led to the cells after being found guilty this afternoon, the father of Alesha MacPhail shouted ‘f***ing scumbag’ at him.