Speaking on ITV’s Good Morning Britain yesterday, Ms Lochrane, 24, said: “I’m disgusted by it. It’s not fair.

“He gets to appeal, where does Alesha fit in?

“She didn’t get to appeal against being murdered, so why should he be allowed to?

“They are allowed to cause more pain. That’s not fair.”

Drug user Campbell snatched Alesha from a bedroom at her grandparents’ home in Rothesay on the Isle of Bute and subjected her to a “bestial” attack, during which she sustained 117 injuries.

The youngster had been on a three-week trip to visit her father, Glasgow’s High Court heard.

Trial judge Lord Matthews told Campbell that the “sweet, angelic, innocent girl” should have returned home to her mother in Coatbridge, Lanarkshire.

He added: “Instead of that, you came into her life, you stole that life and committed some of the wickedest, most evil crimes this court has ever heard of in decades of dealing with depravity.”

Instead of that, you came into her life, you stole that life and committed some of the wickedest, most evil crimes this court has ever heard of in decades of dealing with depravity

Lord Matthews

Alesha’s family endured a nine-day trial before Campbell was found guilty in February.

He later admitted he had been fantasising about committing an “excessive” crime for around a year.

Yesterday, Ms Lochrane told Good Morning Britain that she doesn’t “take any risks” with her other daughter Courtney, four.

“I am so protective over her,” she said. “I always have been protective but now it’s extremely bad.”

Ms Lochrane was joined on the show by Ann Marie Cocozza from Families and Friends Affected by Murder and Suicide.

She said the system allowing killers to appeal must be changed.

Ms Cocozza said: “What happened to Alesha is a crime against humanity. Your first basic human right is the right to live.”

Campbell’s lawyers claim his sentence is too harsh. His appeal will be heard by judges at Edinburgh’s High Court in August.

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