Daily Express - 08.08.2019

24 Daily Express Thursday, August 8, 2019

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By Deborah Collcutt

By Richard Elias Court of Criminal Appeal in

Edinburgh yesterday to the

killer’s lawyer, Brian

McConnachie, claim the

punishment was excessive

because of Campbell’s age.

Campbell was 16 when he was

convicted in March of abducting,

raping and murdering Alesha on

the Isle of Bute.

His counsel argued the

sentencing judge had focused on

“pessimistic” background

reports. The appeal judges will

give their rulling at a later date.

“miscarriage of justice”. They

have highlighted the case of Luke

Mitchell, who murdered his

girlfriend in 2003 when he

was just 15. He was jailed

for life too but his

minimum recommended

term was 20 years which,

according to Campbell’s

legal team, is unfair on

their client. Three of

Scotland’s most senior

judges listened at the

F

OR Coleen Rooney’s

741,000 followers on

Instagram, the writing has

been on the wall for several

months. As far back as

Mother’s Day, at the end of

March, a read between the lines of

Coleen’s posts revealed that she was

dying to get back to Britain and her

family.

Above a photo of her, her four

sons, her brothers and mum and dad,

she wrote: “First Mother’s Day I am

not going to be with you, Mum, but

we have loads to look forward to!!”

In May, homesick Coleen, 33,

posted: “Looking forward to taking

the kids to the BBC Summer Social

this August in the area we are from...

Croxteth Liverpool!”

The following month, on her

wedding anniversary, she posted a

picture of her and Wayne, with the

words: “11 years married!! Happy

anniversary @waynerooney. It’s been

a journey... Ups and downs, highs

and lows... but you know what... I

love you x”

And in July she posted a photo of

her and her boys in the garden: “First

year of school in America all done,”

as if underlining that her work there

was too.

Given that we now know Wayne

has taken a multi-million-pound pay

cut to move as a player-coach to

Derby County so that Coleen and

their boys can move back to Britain,

was there a subliminal message in her

post? Was she saying that after all she

has put up with, the least her

husband could do is take her back to

the bosom of her close-knit family?

The couple married in a lavish

ceremony in Portofino in 2008 but

Coleen has known Wayne since she

was 12, when his mum Jeanette

worked as a part-time cleaner at the

Catholic school she attended in the

Croxteth suburb of Liverpool. The

pair started going out when she

was 16.

But by their first wedding anniver-

sary, when Coleen was five months

pregnant with their first child, Kai,

now nine, Wayne’s £1,000 encounter

with an escort at Manchester’s five-

star Lowry Hotel was making

headlines.

Wayne also admitted making trips

to massage parlours before he and

Coleen were even married.

Then in 2017, when Coleen was

three months pregnant with their

youngest son, Cass, and away on

holiday in Spain with her other sons,

Klay, six, and Kit, three, the former

Everton striker was arrested for

driving party girl Laura Simpson in

her VW Beetle in Cheshire while

three times over the alcohol limit.

There is no suggestion that Wayne

was unfaithful to Coleen but she was

said to be furious.

And in January this year the

footballer was spotted drinking with

barmaid Vicki Rosiek in a 10-hour

booze-fuelled bender in Florida.

It came just weeks after the former

England captain was arrested for

being drunk at an airport in

Washington DC.

T

HE Rooneys’ marriage was

said to be “hanging by a

thread” and Wayne, desper-

ate for forgiveness, is believed to

have agreed to Coleen’s every

demand – including breaking his

£13million contract with DC United

to return to Britain.

Work has continued on the

Rooneys’ new £20million home in

Cheshire while they have been in

America and it is thought to be

nearing completion. Coleen has

registered the boys at the local school

and is all set for the start of the new

term next month.

And sources say that she is just

delighted to be home because despite

enjoying a luxury lifestyle in

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Sex killer of girl, 6, appeals

against his 27 year sentence

THE teenage murderer of
six-year-old Alesha MacPhail has
claimed his horrific crime was no
worse than that of another of
Scotland’s most notorious
young killers.
Aaron Campbell’s lawyers
are appealing against the
minimum
27 year term handed down
to him, saying it is
“excessive” and a

Killer... Campbell is
appealing sentence

Pictures: EMPICS, EAMONN AND JAMES CLARKE