Alesha MacPhail 's uncle has hit out at the criminal justice system after evil killer Aaron Campbell won an appeal to have his sentence reduced.
The 17-year-old won a court case on Tuesday which saw three years shaved off his life tariff of 27 years.
It will now be 24 years before he can appeal to the parole board for release after raping and murdering the six-year-old on the Isle of Bute last summer.
Following the decision by three top judges, Calum MacPhail , who previously launched a petition calling for teen killers and rapists to be treated as adults in court, said the family had been failed.
He said: “This has been the most atrocious day. It’s like applying salt to a very open wound.
“The justice system hasn’t helped us in any sort of way other than to give, give, give to him and take away from us.”
He said of Alesha: “Remember her as the smiley wee girl she was and a girl who still needs justice done for her.”
Calum's comment came after Campbells's solicitor Brian McConnachie told the Court of Criminal Appeal in Edinburgh that the day of his release "may never come" but said the minimum punishment was "excessive and amounts to a miscarriage of justice" due to his age.
They used the when he was just 14, to back up the appeal.
Campbell will now be aged 40 when his release can be considered for the first time.
He was 16 when he abducted Alesha, from Airdrie, from her bed after sneaking into her grandparents' home in Rothesay on the Isle of Bute on July 2 last year.
carried her to woodland where he raped and suffocated her, leaving her body to be discovered by a member of a search party the next morning.
Campbell was unanimously convicted by a jury after putting Alesha's loved ones through a nine-day trial in February, during which he tried to incriminate Alesha’s dad’s girlfriend for the murder.
He subsequently admitted his guilt to a court psychologist, saying he was “quite satisfied” with the murder and had to “zip his mouth” to stop himself laughing during the trial.
