The family home of child killer Aaron Campbell has been sold.
Five years after the then teenager abducted, raped and murdered six year old Alesha MacPhail, documents show the detached four bedroom villa sold for £200,000 to a woman in Lanarkshire.
The empty property on the Isle of Bute had been targeted by vandals and pictures for a sales brochure published by a Glasgow estate agent showed Campbell's former bedroom stripped bare. A trampoline, used to film YouTube videos, was also highlighted in an overgrown area of the garden.
The detached four-bedroom house been put on the market last year for a fixed price of £230,000. It had been bought by the killer's family in 2010 for £170,000.
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Campbell, 20, was caught on camera skulking back to his family home under the cover of darkness after he snatched six-year-old Alesha, from Airdrie, from her bed and murdered her in nearby woodland.
A source said: "It wasn't obvious at all that the house was even up for sale and they've had some real difficulty getting it sold.
"The price was cut last year and it's taken until now for someone to buy it."
Earlier this week, Alesha's heartbroken mum Georgina Lochrane paid tribute to her daughter on the fifth anniversary of her death.
In a post online, she said: "Five whole horrible heartbreaking years without you.
"Not a single day goes by where we don't think about you or talk about you Alesha you are included in everything we do. Our full world came crashing down.
"Five years to this date you were ripped from our lives and life hasn't ever been the same you're the biggest part missing from us all and we miss you so much every single moment.
"What I would do to bring you back."
Campbell was aged just 16 when he took Alesha from her grandparent's house in July 2018.
He raped and murdered his victim and left her with 117 injuries before he returned home.
Her body was found the next day after a huge search operation was launched on the island.
Images of Campbell jumping a wall at the front of the property and creeping back in after he had killed the youngster became central in the prosecution case against him.
His trial at the High Court in Glasgow heard Campbell crept back into his house after killing Alesha and took a shower before he disposed of clothing on the shoreline.
He denied any wrongdoing and tried to blame the killing on Alesha's dad's girlfriend but he was convicted by a jury in February 2019.
The monster later confessed all to social workers and told them he had to 'zip his mouth shut' during the trial to stop himself laughing.
Judge Lord Matthews jailed Campbell for a minimum of 27 years which was later reduced to 24 years on appeal.
