ALESHA MacPhail’s murderer Aaron Campbell is “bulking up’ in a prison gym because he’s terrified he will be attacked in an adult jail, sources revealed.
The monster, 21, is working out daily ahead of his move from a young offenders unit within weeks.
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An insider said of the fiend, who raped and killed Alesha, six, on Bute when he was 16: “He knows he will have a target on his back.”
The worried child killer Campbell began punishing gym sessions once he learned he was being moved to a tough adult prison, sources revealed.
The weedy monster is lifting weights and training for an hour a day amid fears of attacks by violent lags ahead of his looming jail transfer.
Campbell — one of the country’s most despised inmates — is expected to be switched from Polmont Young Offenders Institution in Stirlingshire any day having turned 21 in May.
The fiend was 16 when he raped and murdered six-year-old Alesha MacPhail after snatching her from her bed as she visited her grandparents and dad on Bute in 2018.
Her body was found hours later with 117 injuries in the grounds of a derelict island hotel.
Sources told The Scottish Sun the coward is now terrified that hardened cons sickened by his crime will take revenge.
An insider said last night: “He is bulking up because he knows when he gets to the adult prison, he will have a target on his back for what he did to that young girl.
“He has never shown any interest before in working out or being in the gym.
“But when he realised he would soon be moved to an adult jail he asked for access to the unit’s fitness centre.
“Maybe he is worried he will need to be able to defend himself when he is moved.”
Campbell was previously rushed to hospital after being battered by fellow criminals at Polmont.
He is likely to be switched to HMP Glenochil in Clackmannanshire.
The nick holds a mix of high, medium and low security inmates, with lags transferred from other jails rather than being sent directly from court.
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The brute was caged for at least 27 years — cut to 24 on appeal — after being found guilty of murdering the Airdrie schoolgirl following a harrowing trial at the High Court in Glasgow in 2019.
He later confessed all to social workers — and told them he had to “zip his mouth shut” during the case to stop himself laughing.
Judge Lord Matthews told the then-teen he had committed “some of the most wicked and evil crimes this court has ever heard of”.
He described the fiend as a “cold, calculating, remorseless and dangerous individual”.
We told this week how the family home where evil Campbell lived has been sold five years after the murder.
The detached four-bedroom villa near Rothesay had been put on the market last year for a fixed price of £230,000.
It was recently sold for £200,000 to a private buyer.
And tragic Alesha’s mum told of her agony days ago on the fifth anniversary of her “beautiful” daughter’s death.
Georgina Lochrane, 27, wrote on the charity page Alesha’s Beaming Smile: “Five horrible, heartbreaking years without you.”
A Scottish Prison Service spokesman said: “We don’t comment on individual prisoners.”