ALESHA MacPhail’s killer Aaron Campbell has had his swap to an grownup jail halted — after jail chiefs realised a relative of the murdered six-year-old is an inmate there.
The fiend, 21, was set to switch to Glenochil nick close to Alloa till the revelation sparked fears for his security.
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An insider stated: “Bosses needed to put a cease to it.”
The transfer to an grownup jail was stopped on the eleventh hour when “ultimate checks” uncovered dangers to his security, it emerged final night time.
Jail bosses put the brakes on after being made conscious {that a} member of the family of Campbell’s six-year-old sufferer Alesha McPhail was serving a sentence on the identical jail.
The revelation scuppered months of preparations within the run-up to the fiend’s twenty first birthday to change him to Alloa’s powerful nick from Polmont Younger Offenders Establishment in Stirlingshire.
Campbell — one of many nation’s most despised inmates — was 16 when he raped and killed schoolgirl Alesha after snatching her from her mattress as she visited her grandparents and pa on Bute in July 2018.
A supply advised The Scottish Solar how jail chiefs had been alarmed to find {that a} relative of the Airdrie teenager has been an inmate at Glenochil since 2017.
The insider stated: “He was all set to be moved to Glenochil, however on doing a little ultimate checks it was picked up {that a} member of Alesha’s household is in there.
“It wouldn’t be secure to have them in the identical nick.
“Bosses needed to decide and put a cease to any transfer simply now.”
Campbell will now keep at Polmont till an acceptable jail for him has been recognized.
The supply added: “Who is aware of how lengthy that can take.
“Within the meantime, he nonetheless visits the health club each day in his bid to toughen up as a result of he is aware of he is not going to get a heat welcome wherever he goes.”
We revealed final month how the monster was “bulking up” in Polmont’s health club for concern he will probably be focused by grownup lags following his transfer.
We additionally advised how psychiatrists from Glenochil spoke to him at Polmont.
In June final 12 months, Campbell was rushed to hospital after being battered by younger cons in his cell on the juvenile establishment.
The smirking brute was caged for not less than 27 years — minimize to 24 on attraction — after being discovered responsible of murdering Alesha following a harrowing trial on the Excessive Courtroom in Glasgow in February 2019.
He later confessed to social staff and advised them he needed to “zip his mouth shut” through the case to cease himself laughing.
Choose Lord Matthews described the beast as “chilly, calculating, remorseless and harmful”.
On July 2, Alesha’s mum advised of her anguish on the fifth anniversary of her “lovely” daughter’s demise.
Georgina Lochrane, 27, wrote on charity web page Alesha’s Beaming Smile: “5 horrible, heartbreaking years with out you.”
Final night time, a Scottish Jail Service spokesman stated: “We don’t touch upon people.”
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