A two-day sentencing hearing is under way for the killer of 15-year-old Holly Newton.
A 15-year-old girl had a "typical teenage relationship" with a boy before he murdered her, her mother has told a court.
MacPhail secretly followed Holly for about an hour after she left school on the afternoon of 27 January, before attacking her in an alley next to a pizza shop. She said MacPhail would spend weekends with Holly's family and their relationship had shown "no red flags" until towards the end when Holly wanted to break it off.Ms Trussler said it was clear her "caring and thoughtful" daughter had been more mature than MacPhail but when she had tried to break up with him, he had used "emotional blackmail" and scared Holly.
Ms Trussler said Holly's death felt like a part of her heart had been ripped away, with the pain "indescribable".Prosecutor David Brooke KC said a life sentence with detention was mandatory for murder but the debate was about the minimum term MacPhail should serve before being eligible for release. The prosecutor said MacPhail had been intent on seeing Holly and messages he had sent demonstrated his "jealousy" and "unhappiness with how he felt he had been treated".
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