The mother of murdered Alesha MacPhail is determined to visit her killer in prison so she can "look into his eyes and ask why".
Devastated Georgina Lochrane, 24, says she has been unable to get out of bed since it emerged sick killer Aaron Campbell has appealed against his sentence.
Despite denying the offence at trial Campbell has since admitted he was the one who snatched six-year-old Alesha and murdered her.
He is appealing his life sentence. The 16-year-old has been ordered to serve a minimum term of 27 years.
Judge Lord Matthews labelled the teen killer a "cold, callous, calculating and remorseless and dangerous individual".
A family insider has reportedly told the Sunday Express : "She wants to sit opposite him, look into his eyes and ask why.
"She feels it is her right. Whether it is allowed I don't know, but she will be aiming to do that once we know where we are with the appeal."
Because Campbell denied the offence all the horrid detail of his offending had to be heard by Georgina.
And now they fear, with the appeal against his sentence, they may have to go through the same procedure again.
The nine-day trial heard how Campbell kidnapped the sleeping youngster from her bed at knifepoint.
She was on holiday at a flat in Rothesay on the Isle of Bute in Scotland with her father and grandparents.
Campbell carried her half a mile to a woodland where she was raped and smothered to death.
One police officer giving evidence wept in the witness stand because of his memory of Alesha's battered body.
Campbell is currently serving his sentence at Polmont prison in Falkirk, Scotland.
He could not be identified during his trial at the High Court in Glasgow because of his age.
Lifting the ban, Lord Matthews said: “I can’t think of a case in recent times that attracted such revulsion."
Calum MacPhail is campaigning for a change of law so serious young offenders receive adult sentences.
His petition calling for such change amassed 20,000 signatures in two weeks.
Calum said: "Now he is appealing, it puts it into perspective even further. He’s already not been given a full sentence and now he is appealing to have a lesser sentence."
