Police working on an island where six-year-old Alesha MacPhail was murdered are 'afraid to go out on duty' after overnight cover was slashed.
The Isle of Bute hit headlines globally in July 2018 when little Alesha was abducted from her bed in her grandparents' home, before being raped and murdered. Killer Aaron Campbell, then aged 16, had been buying cannabis from Alesha's dad, a trial at the High Court in Glasgow was told, and is now serving a life sentence.
Police flooded the island from the mainland, but some were hampered by vandalism at a ferry port in Wemyss Bay, Inverclyde. A new initiative was brought in recently which means Police Scotland has officers on call from midnight until 8am during the week, rather than on shift, and from 2am until 8am at weekends.
