Daily Express - 08.08.2019

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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

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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.

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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


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