There is a “mountain” of evidence against a teenager accused of abducting, raping and murdering a six-year-old girl, a jury has been told. Advocate depute Iain McSporran QC said the

DNA matching a teenage boy accused of raping and murdering a six-year-old girl was found on her body and clothes, a court has heard. Forensic scientist Stuart Bailey said DNA

The Alesha MacPhail murder trial has been told the six-year-old schoolgirl was smothered and suffered “catastrophic” injuries to her genital area. Pathologist John Williams said the youngster suffered more severe

A woman blamed by a murder accused for killing a six-year-old girl and “planting” his DNA on the child’s body has told a court she had nothing to do with

The family of murdered Alesha MacPhail told a trial of the frantic search for the six-year-old when they realised she was missing from her bed. Schoolgirl Alesha was spending the

The father of murdered six-year-old Alesha MacPhail sold cannabis to the teenager accused of killing her, a court has heard. Robert MacPhail, 26, told the High Court in Glasgow he

A teenage boy accused of raping and murdering a six-year-old girl on the Isle of Bute blames a woman for the crime. The body of Alesha MacPhail was discovered in