Alesha MacPhail’s heartbroken mother reveals six-year-old’s last words to her little sister, five, were ‘I love you’ in first TV interview since horrific murder as she admits ‘there are days I don’t want to be here’
- Georgina Lochrane, 24, open up about her grief on Scottish television show
- Ms Lochrane revealed how Alesha, six, and her little sister were best friends
- There are days she doesn’t ‘want to be here’ but her daughter keeps her going
The mother of six-year-old Alesha MacPhail has opened up about her grief and revealed her murdered daughter’s harrowing last words to her sister.
In a heartwrenching interview Georgina Lochrane spoke out about her struggle to cope in the wake of her daughter’s horrific death, and how her surviving daughter has become her reason for living.
The 24-year-old revealed how the youngster hugged her five-year-old sister Courtney and said, ‘I love you’ in what was to be the last time they saw one another.
The inseparable pair told their mother they were ‘best sisters for life’, before Alesha was snatched from her bed while staying with her grandparents’ on the Scottish Isle of Bute.
Georgina Lochrane spoke out about her struggle to cope in the wake of her daughter’s horrific death
Alesha, from Airdrie, Lanarkshire, (left) was abducted and killed by twisted 16-year-old Aaron Campbell (right)
In her first television interview since her Alesha’s death, Ms Lochrane told STV News at Six how she hoped to help other families torn apart by similar tragedies.
The young mother has vowed to face 16-year-old Aaron Campbell, who raped and murdered ‘angelic’ Alesha after abducting her from her bed in the middle of the night.
Ms Lochrane says she wants to work with the charity FAMS (Families against murder and suicide) which has helped her since losing her daughter.
She told STV News: ‘If I didn’t have Courtney I would just want to crumble and be with Alesha right now.
‘But I still have her. She is my fight. I have to fight for her, and when she is older I have to tell her what happened.’
She also opened up about the last time Alesha and her little sister said goodbye to one another.
She added: ‘Alesha told Courtney ‘you’re my best sister’ and Courtney said ‘you’re mine’.
‘They told each other they loved each other. Courtney still speaks about that day, She remembers it but she doesn’t realise that’s the last time she saw Alesha.’
The young mother also spoke about her guilty about not being able to save her daughter.
She said: ‘I know I couldn’t have done anything but there’s still a part of me..I still feel guilty about what happened to her.’
Georgina Lochrane outside the High Court in Glasgow in February, after a judge allowed Aaron Campbell, 16, to be identified as the teenager who abducted, raped and murdered her six-year-old daughter Alesha
Alesha, from Airdrie, Lanarkshire, was reported missing while visiting her grandparents on the island on July 2 last year.
She was taken from her bed to nearby woodland after falling asleep watching Peppa Pig and subjected to harrowing abuse.
Her naked remains were found two hours later in the grounds of the former Kyles Hydropathic Hotel.
In February, a jury at High Court in Glasgow found Campbell guilty of taking the youngster from her bed, raping and mutilating her and dumping her body in woodland.
An autopsy found that Alesha had suffered 117 injuries and died from significant pressure being applied to her face and neck.
Campbell, who was sentenced to a minimum of 27 years in prison in February, has since launched an appeal against his sentence.