The traumatised dad of Alesha MacPhail vandalised the family home of her killer.
Robert MacPhail was "overcome with an overwhelming sense of anger" when he targeted the house where Aaron Campbell lived when he abducted the six-year-old from her grandparent's home.
The 30-year-old admitted the attack by throwing a rock at a parked car belonging to the murderer's mother Jeanette and smashing a window.
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Greenock Sheriff Court heard the grief-stricken dad was on his way to see a friend when he passed the house on the Isle of Bute last summer, three years after little Alesha died.
The Airdrie schoolgirl had been visiting her family during the school holidays when Campbell snatched her from her bed and then raped and murdered her.
Defence solicitor Gerry Keenan said: "It is difficult to envisage something that would engender greater unhappiness than the death of a child, and the way in which the child died.
"Mr MacPhail did not seek out the complainer.
"He had been drinking and was on his way to see a friend.
"As he passed the house he saw items of masonry and he was overcome by an overwhelming sense of anger and trauma.
"His behaviour reflected that anger and trauma."
Mr MacPhail also pleaded guilty to a charge of shouting and swearing.
Campbell was given a minimum sentence of 27 years after a trial at the High Court in Glasgow in 2019, which was reduced to 24 years on appeal.
Mr Keenan said: "Mr MacPhail understands that he had no basis from which to direct his anger towards Campbell's family.
"But one can understand why he did it, although clearly it cannot be excused.
"We are now one year on from the incident and there has been no recurrence."
He added: "Mr MacPhail is doing as well as can be expected, albeit the wound of losing his daughter clearly will never heal.
"He is no longer on the anti-depressants which had been prescribed to him.
"It would be reasonable to assume that what he did is something that is not going to reoccur."
Sheriff Michael Higgins deferred sentence on Mr MacPhail, who committed the offences at an address on Rothesay, until later this year for him to be of good behaviour.
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