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16 year-old boy guilty of murdering Alesha MacPhail

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  • Registered Users Posts: 7,259 ✭✭✭donkeykong5


    I hope they name and shame the two scumbags from Leixlip who murdered poor Anastasia Kriegel last summer in Lucan when they are sent to trial and found guilty! If they are old enough to take someone's life they should lose the right to protect their identity when they are convicted same as this piece of crap!
    One of them was allowed out at Christmas for a few days. Seriously wtf ?


  • Registered Users Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    DM describing him as having a metrosexual fashion sense.

    Jesus, haven't heard that term since 2006.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,034 ✭✭✭mad muffin


    Why on earth was she allowed to stay out on an island with a drug dealing father who kept company with utter scum.

    Have you seen the mother? With her half drunk bottle of iron bru… I doubt she is fully compos mentis.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,916 ✭✭✭✭iguana


    Why on earth was she allowed to stay out on an island with a drug dealing father who kept company with utter scum.

    Alesha lived 60 miles away in Airdrie with her mother. She was only on a visit with her father and staying at her grandparents', his parents, home. And for all we know the visit was court ordered. It was mentioned in court that his parents played down reports of domestic abuse between him and girlfriend due to the upcoming custody case between him and Alesha's mother. Perhaps the mother was trying to prevent the access?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,365 ✭✭✭ceadaoin.


    Why on earth was she allowed to stay out on an island with a drug dealing father who kept company with utter scum.

    Ah here, it's not the mothers fault in any way. Mothers who try to deny fathers access, which is for the kids protection in many cases, are also hated on here. Can't win.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,021 ✭✭✭✭anewme


    mad muffin wrote: »
    Have you seen the mother? With her half drunk bottle of iron bru… I doubt she is fully compos mentis.

    Thats so not fair.

    I understand her Mum and Alesha lived In what would be described as a rough area.

    The Mum looked like she was not well off.

    Being poor is not a crime, its circumstances.

    Does not mean she loved her little girl any less.

    She comes across as being young, and absolutely at a loss as to how this happened .

    She needs help and support now, not being looked down on.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,492 ✭✭✭✭AndrewJRenko


    Jackman25 wrote: »
    So you think those stats would be less with shorter prison sentences?


    Like the way murder stats are much less in Europe than USA, with their full life prison sentances?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate#By_country


    I hope they name and shame the two scumbags from Leixlip who murdered poor Anastasia Kriegel last summer in Lucan when they are sent to trial and found guilty! If they are old enough to take someone's life they should lose the right to protect their identity when they are convicted same as this piece of crap!
    Will it make you feel better to learn their names?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,916 ✭✭✭✭iguana


    mad muffin wrote: »
    Have you seen the mother? With her half drunk bottle of iron bru… I doubt she is fully compos mentis.

    At a time of stress and grief more than most of us can ever imagine, the woman had a bottle of the most popular soft drink in her country which she had drank half of. Wtaf could anyone think that tells them about her?:confused::mad:


  • Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,947 Mod ✭✭✭✭Neyite


    mad muffin wrote: »
    Have you seen the mother? With her half drunk bottle of iron bru… I doubt she is fully compos mentis.

    My son is six. The same age as the victim here. I can tell you now that the only way I'd be upright and walking in a situation like Georgina (Alesha's mother) would be if I was tranquillised to the eyeballs. I would want to die. But not before I saw the scum that caused me this pain to get convicted.

    To me she looked like a young mum. Probably not loaded, probably doing the best she could. She might have thought her ex was a stoner and a waster or whatever, but he does come across as having genuine love for his daughter. And besides, Granny and Grandad were there. And it's a quiet island where it's relatively safe. You worry that the grandparents will fill her up with sugar and bugger up her bedtime routine. You aren't exactly worrying about 16yo psychopaths next door taking an unhealthy interest in your little child.

    And have a bit of heart. She sent her child off on her summer holidays to her dad. Probably thought "great, a lie in!" then she wakes up, checks her facebook and there's her daughter missing on it. And a few hours into processing that and trying to find out more information or to get to the area, she finds out also via facebook that her baby has been raped and murdered.

    But judge away for her carrying an Irn Bru.
    Jesus.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,034 ✭✭✭mad muffin


    anewme wrote: »
    Thats so not fair.

    I understand her Mum and Alesha lived In what would be described as a rough area.

    The Mum looked like she was not well off.

    Being poor is not a crime, its circumstances.

    Does not mean she loved her little girl any less.

    She comes across as being young, and absolutely at a loss as to how this happened .

    She needs help and support now, not being looked down on.
    iguana wrote: »
    At a time of stress and grief more than most of us can ever imagine, the woman had a bottle of the most popular soft drink in her country which she had drank half of. Wtaf could anyone think that tells them about her?:confused::mad:
    Neyite wrote: »
    My son is six. The same age as the victim here. I can tell you now that the only way I'd be upright and walking in a situation like Georgina (Alesha's mother) would be if I was tranquillised to the eyeballs. I would want to die. But not before I saw the scum that caused me this pain to get convicted.

    To me she looked like a young mum. Probably not loaded, probably doing the best she could. She might have thought her ex was a stoner and a waster or whatever, but he does come across as having genuine love for his daughter. And besides, Granny and Grandad were there. And it's a quiet island where it's relatively safe. You worry that the grandparents will fill her up with sugar and bugger up her bedtime routine. You aren't exactly worrying about 16yo psychopaths next door taking an unhealthy interest in your little child.

    And have a bit of heart. She sent her child off on her summer holidays to her dad. Probably thought "great, a lie in!" then she wakes up, checks her facebook and there's her daughter missing on it. And a few hours into processing that and trying to find out more information or to get to the area, she finds out also via facebook that her baby has been raped and murdered.

    But judge away for her carrying an Irn Bru.
    Jesus.

    Aaaand the mask slips…


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  • Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,947 Mod ✭✭✭✭Neyite


    mad muffin wrote: »
    Aaaand the mask slips…

    Elaborate?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,034 ✭✭✭mad muffin


    Neyite wrote: »
    Elaborate?

    I’m being attacked on all fronts for simply making an observation. Those who shall not be named do like to attack…


  • Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,947 Mod ✭✭✭✭Neyite


    mad muffin wrote: »
    I’m being attacked on all fronts for simply making an observation. Those who shall not be named do like to attack…

    Yeah but if you are going to say something daft then expect to be pulled up on it.

    Genuinely, what is so wrong about walking out of a courtroom with half a fizzy drink and looking a bit dazed?

    Surely if we are judging the parents here the drug dealing-to-minors dad with a just about legal girlfriend and who couldn't be arsed to even read a bedtime story to his child on her first night of a three week visit to his home and instead putting on a Peppa DVD in order to go and have a **** to porn is a juicer prospect to clutch the pearls in judgemental outrage at than a mum carrying a half a bottle of Irn Bru?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,786 ✭✭✭KathleenGrant


    mad muffin wrote: »
    Aaaand the mask slips…

    3 people had issues with your post and they commented and they all had a mask to slip?
    Or maybe your comment was out of order.
    Also you didn't just make an observation, you made an assumption, a judgement.


  • Posts: 11,614 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    mad muffin wrote: »
    Have you seen the mother? With her half drunk bottle of iron bru… I doubt she is fully compos mentis.

    What has Irn Bru got to do with anything? The way that sentence is framed I was expecting you to say vodka or buck fast. You know Irn Bru is a soft drink yeah?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,405 ✭✭✭Airyfairy12


    Hedgelayer wrote: »
    You'll get some lunatics leaning left who'll be banging war drums and sending smoke signals to have empathy for the monster...

    Id consider myself to be fairly left leaning and dont have any empathy for this psychopath. I dont understand why'd youd use the horrific rape and murder of a child to as a stick to bash other people with.


    If he's capable of doing something so vile at 16 imagine what he'll be like in 10 years? Lock him up and throw away the key.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,487 ✭✭✭Mutant z


    As much as i despise isis if there was ever anyone who should be tortured to death by them it should be oxygen stealing vermin such as this.


  • Registered Users Posts: 625 ✭✭✭dd973


    These types of events have a profound effect in these sorts of communities which save for the accent are pretty much a clone of rural Ireland.

    The perpetrator is obviously a damaged young man who has to be removed from society for who knows how long for, hopefully the victims can rebuild their lives which will never be the same.


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,259 ✭✭✭donkeykong5


    Jackman25 wrote: »
    So you think those stats would be less with shorter prison sentences?


    Like the way murder stats are much less in Europe than USA, with their full life prison sentances?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate#By_country


    I hope they name and shame the two scumbags from Leixlip who murdered poor Anastasia Kriegel last summer in Lucan when they are sent to trial and found guilty! If they are old enough to take someone's life they should lose the right to protect their identity when they are convicted same as this piece of crap!
    Will it make you feel better to learn their names?
    Yes. Definitely. I would like to know the names of the scum who murdered the young school girl.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,492 ✭✭✭✭AndrewJRenko


    Yes. Definitely. I would like to know the names of the scum who murdered the young school girl.

    How will knowing the names make you feel better? Please explain the impact or reasoning here.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,482 ✭✭✭Gimme A Pound


    I'm politically in the centre and I don't want any torture of him but I would like if he were imprisoned in a jail without any frills until old age.
    mad muffin wrote: »
    Aaaand the mask slips…
    What mask? Utterly asinine post.

    A woman's child was raped and murdered and you find it noteworthy that she looked dazed? :confused:

    I'm assuming you thought Irn Bru is an alcohol based drink (assuming) but now you know.

    No point in deflecting by pretending it's others who are out of order - you were the one who actually tried to pin some blame on the mother of a child who was raped and murdered, and that is sick.


  • Registered Users Posts: 554 ✭✭✭Fiftyfilthy


    Was reading the case properly for the first time last night

    How did he get into the house, Take the little girl without either making a sound

    Was reading about the 18 year old girlfriend being jealous of the child and saying the next day that the 6 year old was in a better place

    The dad sold drugs to the killer

    Witnesses saw and heard he was bashing the 18 year old about

    They lived with his parents

    The killer claims he slept with the 18 year old

    No doubt he killed her as his dna, clothes, cctv but wonder if the 18 year old girlfriend is completely innocent ?

    Finally the fortnite references are ridiculous

    Oh and yes and kill him


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,409 ✭✭✭✭gimli2112


    No doubt he killed her as his dna, clothes, cctv but wonder if the 18 year old girlfriend is completely innocent ?

    I'd say she is. This was his defence, that she did it, not that she put him up to it. Police don't seem to have paid any heed to it, neither did the court, I doubt there was any physical evidence she was involved or it would have been reported. Can't see her being jealous of a six year old the father sees infrequently.
    An awful thing for an 18 year old to be accused of and it's affected her badly apparently. No one's perfect but there's only one evil f*** involved in this thing imo.


  • Site Banned Posts: 25 cluane


    Because Bute is so remote, people usually leave the doors unlocked. That's how Campbell got in.


  • Registered Users Posts: 554 ✭✭✭Fiftyfilthy


    cluane wrote: »
    Because Bute is so remote, people usually leave the doors unlocked. That's how Campbell got in.

    Not so sure, that is very rare to leave doors unlocked over there. Just wouldn’t really happen anymore


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,294 ✭✭✭✭A Dub in Glasgo


    Not so sure, that is very rare to leave doors unlocked over there. Just wouldn’t really happen anymore

    On what basis do you say that?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,800 ✭✭✭tretorn


    Neyite wrote: »
    My son is six. The same age as the victim here. I can tell you now that the only way I'd be upright and walking in a situation like Georgina (Alesha's mother) would be if I was tranquillised to the eyeballs. I would want to die. But not before I saw the scum that caused me this pain to get convicted.

    To me she looked like a young mum. Probably not loaded, probably doing the best she could. She might have thought her ex was a stoner and a waster or whatever, but he does come across as having genuine love for his daughter. And besides, Granny and Grandad were there. And it's a quiet island where it's relatively safe. You worry that the grandparents will fill her up with sugar and bugger up her bedtime routine. You aren't exactly worrying about 16yo psychopaths next door taking an unhealthy interest in your little child.

    And have a bit of heart. She sent her child off on her summer holidays to her dad. Probably thought "great, a lie in!" then she wakes up, checks her facebook and there's her daughter missing on it. And a few hours into processing that and trying to find out more information or to get to the area, she finds out also via facebook that her baby has been raped and murdered.

    But judge away for her carrying an Irn Bru.


    Jesus.

    The chid was also badly mutilated in the genital area and some of this happened while she was still alive.

    What sort of an animal was this sixteen year old, does he have a mental impairment, he seems to have no conscience at all.


  • Registered Users Posts: 554 ✭✭✭Fiftyfilthy


    On what basis do you say that?

    That I’m originally from one of those Islands


  • Registered Users Posts: 456 ✭✭Jackman25


    Like the way murder stats are much less in Europe than USA, with their full life prison sentances?

    So if the USA reduce their prison sentences, that should reduce the murder rate?


  • Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,947 Mod ✭✭✭✭Neyite


    tretorn wrote: »
    The chid was also badly mutilated in the genital area and some of this happened while she was still alive.

    What sort of an animal was this sixteen year old, does he have a mental impairment, he seems to have no conscience at all.

    As well as that, the risk involved in taking her. He gains entry to a house with 3-4 adults and is taking a big chance that he finds the right room, that none of them are light sleepers and that the child won't wake up and scream when he took her from her bed. It makes me wonder what planning he put into place. Did he know she was coming to stay beforehand and plan? It looks like an impromptu crime but doesn't quite feel like it.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 23,495 ✭✭✭✭Billy86


    Jackman25 wrote: »
    So if the USA reduce their prison sentences, that should reduce the murder rate?
    Not quite the same, but interestingly states with the death penalty tend to have higher crime rates than those that don't - particularly for serious stuff like murder.

    The US also has one of the highest recidivism rates in the western world, while "soft touch" Norway with their shorter sentences an 'hotel prisons' (the ones that focus on rehabilitating more than punishing and isolating) are among the very lowest.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,294 ✭✭✭✭A Dub in Glasgo


    He has been sentenced to a minimum of 27 years

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-47644414
    BBC wrote:
    During his trial, Aaron Campbell had repeatedly denied he abducted, raped and killed the six-year-old on the Isle of Bute last July.

    But he admitted his offences to a psychologist preparing a report to the court ahead of his sentencing


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,300 ✭✭✭✭razorblunt


    Am I right in thinking, that by not admitting his guilt before or during the trial he allowed to court to have to go through all the details of what he done to the poor child? Would the parents have been saved from that with a guilty plea?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,294 ✭✭✭✭A Dub in Glasgo




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,165 ✭✭✭Savage Tyrant


    27 years?.... eligible for parole at 43 years old?... that just seems wrong to me.

    I would fully support the reintroduction of the death penalty for crimes like this.


  • Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,947 Mod ✭✭✭✭Neyite


    27 years?.... eligible for parole at 43 years old?... that just seems wrong to me.

    I would fully support the reintroduction of the death penalty for crimes like this.


    Eligible to apply for parole at 43. Slight difference. Doesn't mean he'll get it. I doubt he'll ever see the light of day again.



    The judge seems to think that he's not been one bit remorseful and that rehabilitation is unlikely. So chances are a parole board in almost 30 years will concur. If someone doesn't kill him in jail first.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 52,404 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    I’d happily carry out the death sentence on this vile creature.
    People like him shouldn’t exist after a hideous crime like this on a sweet innocent child.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,300 ✭✭✭✭razorblunt



    Thanks! I live here too, you'd think I'd know that.

    What an absolute monster.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,450 ✭✭✭✭nullzero
    °°°°°


    He'll be given a new identity and a free house. He should have been locked up for life with no chance of release, 27 years is an insult.

    Glazers Out!



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,164 ✭✭✭Bigbagofcans


    The taxpayers will be paying for this piece of scum to be kept alive. One of the worst crimes I have ever read about - I'd have no hesitation giving him the death penalty.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,809 ✭✭✭Hector Savage


    How much will it cost the taxpayer to keep him locked up ?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,325 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    Neyite wrote: »
    Eligible to apply for parole at 43. Slight difference. Doesn't mean he'll get it. I doubt he'll ever see the light of day again.



    The judge seems to think that he's not been one bit remorseful and that rehabilitation is unlikely. So chances are a parole board in almost 30 years will concur. If someone doesn't kill him in jail first.

    And to be fair, that's a long time. It's entirely possible that they will be a completely different, changed person when that comes around. And if not, that's why they're only eligible for parole, not guaranteed it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,380 ✭✭✭SortingYouOut


    The taxpayers will be paying for this piece of scum to be kept alive. One of the worst crimes I have ever read about - I'd have no hesitation giving him the death penalty.

    Death is a way out for this ****, I think prison is much worse and what he deserves.

    He gets to rot away slowly now instead of a quick release.

    Beverly Hills, California



  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 408 ✭✭SoundsRight


    If ever there was a case for tougher laws around drugs it's this.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 617 ✭✭✭k99_64


    If ever there was a case for tougher laws around drugs it's this.

    ? he wasnt on any drugs at the time.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,812 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    cluane wrote: »
    My question is:

    Do you think that children who commit serious crimes like this should be given special treatment? .

    Absolutely I do.

    I call that special treatment "burning at the stake"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,812 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    If ever there was a case for tougher laws around drugs it's this.


    There wasn't and it isn't.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,409 ✭✭✭✭Sardonicat


    nullzero wrote: »
    He'll be given a new identity and a free house. He should have been locked up for life with no chance of release, 27 years is an insult.
    He got a MINIMUM of 27 years, that means he can only apply for parole then. It does not mean he'll get it.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 408 ✭✭SoundsRight


    k99_64 wrote: »
    ? he wasnt on any drugs at the time.

    Yes, thsts why he went to the house; to look for drugs, as Alesha's father was a dealer. Anyone who thinks it's a harmless drug should consider that little girl's final moments.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 617 ✭✭✭k99_64


    Yes, thsts why he went to the house; to look for drugs, as Alesha's father was a dealer. Anyone who thinks it's a harmless drug should consider that little girl's final moments.

    He didnt get any....he didnt take any, i cant follow your argument...if he went looking for a cigarette would your argument be the same? (honestly dont know where your going with this)


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