A father has informed a homicide trial that he sold hashish to {the teenager} accused of murdering his daughter.
Robert MacPhail, 26, was requested if he knew the 16-year-old accused of abducting, raping and murdering six-year-old Alesha MacPhail.
He answered: “Yes, I sold him cannabis.”
Alesha was killed after she went to keep along with her father for a vacation break at her grandparents’ home on the Isle of Bute in July 2018.
Mr MacPhail stated he and his new companion had moved in with his dad and mom following the break-up of his relationship with Alesha’s mom.
Mr MacPhail informed the jury that the youth accused of her homicide would message him by means of Fb and they’d meet. T
he handover of drugs usually occurred on the bus shelter throughout the street from Alesha’s grandparents’ home in Rothesay.
Referring to the night time she was killed, he stated he had put her to mattress watching a Peppa Pig DVD. When she had received up and went into the lounge, he put her again to mattress and informed her he would see her within the morning.
He stated that was the final time he noticed her.
Alesha’s grandfather, 49-year-old Calum MacPhail, informed the courtroom he woke at about 6am on 2 July final yr to discover Alesha’s bed room door large open.
He stated the mattress was empty and he could not see her within the room. He stated they searched beneath all of the beds, in all of the wardrobes, however there was no signal of Alesha.
He went out in his car to search for Alesha and got here throughout a police cordon and noticed paramedics going up and down a set of steps.
He was directed in direction of the native police station the place he gathered in a room with different members of the family to be informed by an officer: “We have found her but she has passed.”
Giving proof, Alesha’s grandmother Angela King, 47, known as her granddaughter a “beautiful happy girl.”
She informed the courtroom that on the night time Alesha went lacking the important thing was within the lock of the door. She stated: “I’d forgotten to take the key back out of the door.”
The 16-year-old boy on trial denies the rape and homicide of Alesha MacPhail. He has lodged a particular defence blaming a 19-year-old lady.
The trial, earlier than Lord Matthews, continues.
