Alesha MacPhail murder trial: what the court has heard

The 16-year-old suspect blames schoolgirl’s death on her father’s girlfriend

Alesha MacPhail
Alesha MacPhail was killed while staying with her grandparents last summer
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A 16-year-old boy has gone on trial accused of the rape and murder of six-year-old Alesha MacPhail on the Isle of Bute in July last year.

The schoolgirl, from Airdrie in Lanarkshire, “was found dead in the grounds of a disused hotel near her grandparents’ seafront home, close to the ferry port of Rothesay, where she had arrived a few days previously to spend a three-week summer break”, says The Guardian.

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