Evil child killer Aaron Campbell is being moved to an adult prison after six years at a young offenders’ institute, the Record understands. The sick fiend was just 16 when he kidnapped, raped, and murdered Alesha MacPhail in 2018 on the Isle of Bute.
The brute was caged for 27 years – cut to 24 on appeal – after being found guilty of murdering Alesha following a harrowing trial at the High Court in Glasgow in February 2019. Campbell, 22, has since been behind bars at Polmont YOI, near Falkirk.
It is understood that the child killer has now been moved to HMP Glenochil, near Alloa. We reported last month that Campbell was flanked by three officers as he was shown around his new “home”.
Campbell took Alesha, from Airdrie, from her bed at her grandparents’ home on the Isle of Bute, in July 2018. He entered the unlocked home at about 2am hoping to steal cannabis from Alesha’s father, Robert, who lived there.
Instead, he found the sleeping girl and carried her to the grounds of a demolished hotel where he raped and murdered her. Her body was discovered with 117 injuries at a nearby derelict hotel.
Sentencing Campbell in 2019, Judge Lord Matthews described the beast as “cold, calculating, remorseless and dangerous”.
Campbell ultimately confessed to social workers, saying he had to “zip his mouth shut” during the case to keep from laughing. During his time in Polmont, he had to be raced to hospital after being beaten by young cons in his cell.
A Scottish Prison Service spokesman said: “We do not comment on individuals.”
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